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Frederick Dudgeon

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Frederick Dudgeon
Born1866
Died1943 (aged 76–77)
AllegianceUnited Kingdom
Service / branchBritish Army
RankMajor-General
Commands2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment
42nd Infantry Brigade
56th (1/1st London) Division
50th (Northumbrian) Division
Battles / warsWorld War I
AwardsCompanion of the Order of the Bath

Major-General Frederick Annesley Dudgeon CB (1866–1943) was a British Army officer.

Military career

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Dudgeon was commissioned into the South Lancashire Regiment on 29 August 1885.[1]

He served on the Western Front in the First World War, being promoted to temporary colonel in September 1914,[2] as commanding officer (CO) of the 2nd Battalion, the South Lancashire Regiment from 1915, as commander, with the temporary rank of brigadier general,[3] of the 42nd Infantry Brigade from later that year. He was promoted to substantive colonel in February 1916.[4] In August 1917 he was promoted to temporary major general[5] and became general officer commanding (GOC) of the 56th (1/1st London) Division.[6]

After the war he became commander of 8th Infantry Brigade in October 1919 and then GOC 50th (Northumbrian) Division from July 1923 until he retired in July 1927.[7][8]

He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1915 Birthday Honours.[9]

References

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  1. ^ "No. 25506". The London Gazette. 28 August 1885. p. 4084.
  2. ^ "No. 28968". The London Gazette (Supplement). 6 November 1914. p. 9109.
  3. ^ "No. 29307". The London Gazette. 24 September 1915. p. 9436.
  4. ^ "No. 29534". The London Gazette. 4 April 1916. p. 3559.
  5. ^ "No. 30281". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 September 1917. p. 9447.
  6. ^ "Private Papers of Major-General F A Dudgeon". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  7. ^ "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 1 June 2020.
  8. ^ "No. 32844". The London Gazette. 13 July 1923. p. 4854.
  9. ^ "No. 12822". The Edinburgh Gazette. 25 June 1915. p. 907.
Military offices
Preceded by GOC 56th (1/1st London) Division
1917–1918
Succeeded by
Preceded by GOC 50th (Northumbrian) Division
1923–1927
Succeeded by