Major-General Frederick Annesley Dudgeon, (1866–1943) was a

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officer.

Military career

Dudgeon was commissioned into the

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on 29 August 1885. Dudgeon served on the Western Front in the

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, being promoted to temporary colonel in September 1914, as

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of the 2nd Battalion, the South Lancashire Regiment from 1915 and as commander, with the temporary rank of brigadier general, of the 42nd Infantry Brigade from later that year. He was appointed a

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in the

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, and was promoted to substantive colonel in February 1916. In August 1917 he was promoted to temporary major general and became

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(GOC) of the 56th (1/1st London) Division. After the war Dudgeon became commander of the 8th Infantry Brigade in October 1919 and then succeeded Major General

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as GOC

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from July 1923, before he retired in July 1927.

References

, - {{DEFAULTSORT:Dudgeon, Frederick 1866 births 1943 deaths British Army generals of World War I Companions of the Order of the Bath South Lancashire Regiment officers British Army major generals 19th-century British Army personnel Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst