Frederick Dudgeon

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wasMilitary leader
Work fieldMilitary
Gender
Male
Birth1866
Death1943 (aged 77 years)
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Biography

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. He served on the Western Front in the First World War as commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, the South Lancashire Regiment from 1915, as commander, with the temporary rank of brigadier general, of the 42nd Infantry Brigade from later that year and then as General Officer Commanding 56th (1/1st London) Division in August 1917. After the war he became commander of 8th Infantry Brigade in October 1919 and then General Officer Commanding the 50th (Northumbrian) Division from July 1923 until he retired in July 1927.

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

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