Frederick Dudgeon

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

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]