Major Cyril Patrick William Francis Radclyffe Dugmore
Royal Army Service Corps
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1914 Star & Clasp
Mentioned in Despatches. Chevalier of The Legion d'Honneur
(France), VM, BWM
Elizabeth College, Guernsey no.2675.
Born on 20 May 1882 at Birr, County Offaly, Ireland.
The son of Captain Francis Dugmore and the Honourable
Evelyn Mary Brougham of Brockhurst, Grange, St Peter
Port. Married Lilla Brokaw (b1874) widow of H Bramall
Gilbert, a New York socialite on 19 Jan 1914 at her
Manhattan apartment.
Commissioned as second lieutenant in Army Service Corps
on 16 August 1902 and was stationed in South Africa.
He fought in the Second Boer War. He won the Army high
jump for officers 8 times and the long jump seven times
and was Midland Counties champion in both events in
1907. Competed in 1908 Summer Olympics in the triple
jump (11th).
At beginning of WWI was a Captain on Reserve of Officers
and joined Cheshire Regiment as Major. Mentioned in
dispatches 1 Jan 1916.
Living at 4 Burwood Place, Paddington, London in 1939,
retired major. Recommended for the Legion of Honour
(Chevalier Class) by the Commander-in-Chief of the 1st
Army. Involved in propaganda and recruitment duites
in USA. . Divorced 1923. Neither spouse remarried. He
died on 22 Jan 1966 at Pharos House, St Sampson's, Guernsey.