Frederick Dudgeon

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

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

He attended the Staff College, Camberley, from 1893 to 1894.^[2]

He was promoted to lieutenant colonel in February 1912 when he took command of a battalion of his regiment.^[3]

Dudgeon served on the Western Front in the First World War, being promoted to temporary colonel in September 1914,^[4] as commanding officer of the 2nd Battalion, South Lancashire Regiment, from 1915 and as commander, with the temporary rank of brigadier general,^[5] 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,^[6] and was promoted to substantive colonel in February 1916.^[7] In August 1917 he was promoted to temporary major general^[8] and became general officer commanding (GOC) of the 56th (1/1st London) Division.^[9]

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,^[10] before he retired in July 1927.^[11][12]