Frederick Dudgeon
British army officer (1866–1943)
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Major-General Frederick Annesley Dudgeon, CB (1866–1943) was a British Army officer.
Frederick Dudgeon | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1866 |
| Died | 1943 (aged 76–77) |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Branch | British Army |
| Service years | 1885–1927 |
| Rank | Major-General |
| Commands | 50th (Northumbrian) Division (1923–1927) 8th Infantry Brigade (1919–1921) 56th (1/1st London) Division (1917–1918) 42nd Infantry Brigade (1915–1917) 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment (1915) |
| Conflicts | First World War |
| Awards | Companion of the Order of the Bath |
Military career
Dudgeon was commissioned into the South Lancashire Regiment on 29 August 1885.[1]
He attended the Staff College, Camberley, from 1893 to 1894.[2]
Dudgeon served on the Western Front in the First World War, being promoted to temporary colonel in September 1914,[3] as commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, the South Lancashire Regiment from 1915 and as commander, with the temporary rank of brigadier general,[4] of the 42nd Infantry Brigade from later that year. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1915 Birthday Honours,[5] and was promoted to substantive colonel in February 1916.[6] In August 1917 he was promoted to temporary major general[7] and became general officer commanding (GOC) of the 56th (1/1st London) Division.[8]
After the war Dudgeon became commander of the 8th Infantry Brigade in October 1919 and then succeeded Major General Percival Spearman Wilkinson as GOC 50th (Northumbrian) Division from July 1923,[9] before he retired in July 1927.[10][11]