Major Arthur Vaux Venner Radclyffe Dugmore
10th Battalion, King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry

 

Born in 1870 at Machynlleth, Wales, the son of Captain Francis Sandys Dugmore and the Honourable Evelyn Mary Brougham of Brockhurst, the Grange, St Peter Port. He married Henrietta Louise Watkins on 18th Jan 1901 in New Jersey.
Listed in 1905 US Census as an artist and in 1910 as an African explorer. He was a photographer and jourmalist in Belgium at the outbreak of war and was given a temporary commission as Lieutenant (15 March 1915 to 5 June 1917).

He fought in France & Belgium and was hospitalised after being gassed at the Somme in 1916. Promoted to Temporary Captain 5 June and to Temporary Major 10 Feb 1918. He wrote the article "When the Somme Ran Red".

Discharged 28 Feb 1919. He died in Bournemouth in 1955 and was buried there in the East Cemetery