Frederick Dudgeon

Frederick Dudgeon
Born	1866
Died	1943 (aged 76–77)
Allegiance	United Kingdom
Service / branch	British Army
Years of service	1885–1927
Rank	Major-General
Commands	50th (Northumbrian) Division (1923–27) 8th Infantry Brigade (1919–21) 56th (1/1st London) Division (1917–18) 42nd Infantry Brigade (1915–17) 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment (1915)
Battles / wars	First World War
Awards	Companion of the Order of the Bath

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

Military career

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

Dudgeon served on the Western Front in the First World War, being promoted to temporary colonel in September 1914,[2] as commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, the South Lancashire Regiment from 1915 and as commander, with the temporary rank of brigadier general,[3] 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,[4] and was promoted to substantive colonel in February 1916.[5] In August 1917 he was promoted to temporary major general[6] and became general officer commanding (GOC) of the 56th (1/1st London) Division.[7]

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,[8] before he retired in July 1927.[9][10]

References

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. 12822". The Edinburgh Gazette. 25 June 1915. p. 907.
5. "No. 29534". The London Gazette. 4 April 1916. p. 3559.
6. "No. 30281". The London Gazette (Supplement). 11 September 1917. p. 9447.
7. "Private Papers of Major-General F A Dudgeon". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 1 June 2020.
8. "No. 32844". The London Gazette. 13 July 1923. p. 4854.
9. "Army Commands" (PDF). Retrieved 1 June 2020.
10. "No. 32844". The London Gazette. 13 July 1923. p. 4854.

Military offices
Preceded by William Smith	GOC 56th (1/1st London) Division 1917–1918	Succeeded by Charles Hull
Preceded by Sir Percival Wilkinson	GOC 50th (Northumbrian) Division 1923–1927	Succeeded by Sir George Cory