Name
Arthur Dudgeon
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/11/1918
31
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Royal Garrison Artillery
Attached 4th Field Survey Company, Corps of Royal Engineers
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LONGUENESSE (ST. OMER) SOUVENIR CEMETERY
Plot V, Row E, Grave 64.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
St Michael and All Angels Church Memorial, Watford,
Royal Artillery War Commemoration Book
Pre War
Son of the late Arthur and Sarah Isabella Martha (nee CAULFIELD) DUDGEON; husband of Hilda Thursby (nee DENROCHE) DUDGEON.
His parents married 1881 in the Richmond, Surrey, district. Sarah died 5 July 1894 in Watford aged 35. Arthur remarried 1901 in the Brighton, Sussex, district to Florence Arabella DARKER. He died 3 June 1906 in Watford aged 67; Florence died 3 February in Watford aged 44.
Arthur was born 1887 in Dublin, Ireland, and married 1913 in the Dublin South district; they had one child. Hilda possibly remarried 1930 in the Rathdown, Co Wicklow, district.
He has an entry in the National Probate Calendar.
On the 1891 Census, aged 3 he lived in Watford, with his parents and three siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 13 he still lived in Watford, with his widowed father and four siblings. On the 1911 Census, an engineering student aged 23, he still lived in Watford, with his widowed step-mother and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and died in France.
Additional Information
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Arthur in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 30 November 1918.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
