Lieutenant Colonel William Francis Brougham R Dugmore,
DSO
1st Battalion, North Staffordshire
Regiment
12/06/1917
|
|
|
|
DSO
|
1914-15
Star
|
|
Mentioned in
Dispatches (2)
|
Born on 01/10/1869 at Kingston, Newfoundland, Canada.
The son of Captain Francis Dugmore and the Honourable
Evelyn Mary Brougham of Brockhurst, the Grange, St Peter
Port. Husband of Phyllis Monica Usher.
Educated at The Oratory, Birmingham. Enlisted 06/10/1887
and served in East Central Africa (Uganda), South Africa,
Somaliland and West Africa between 1895 and 1905.
He also served in the Boer War as a Lieutenant in Kitchener's
Fighting Scouts and as a Captain in the North Staffordshire
Regiment. Seconded for service under the Colonial Office
09/12/1905.
He was at the Tournay Barracks in Aldershot in 1908
having earned his DSO by this stage. He and his wife
were visiting his mother in Guernsey at the time of
the census in 1911.
He was sent to the Front around 26/09/1914 originally
with the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Regiment as
Lieutenant Colonel and then with the North Staffordshire
Regiment as Assistant Provost Marshal.
He was Mentioned in Dispatches 22/06/1915 and 04/01/1917.
Treated for insomnia on 17/12/1915.
|
Remembered on:
Island (Bailiwick) Memorial, St
Peter Port, Guernsey
St Peter Port Parish Memorial, Guernsey
Elizabeth College Roll of Honour, Guernsey
South African Roll of Honour
|
Commonwealth
War Graves Commission Record
