Major Wilfred Edmund Laurence Radclyffe Dugmore
1st Battalion, Cheshire Regiment
Born on 26th July 1879 at St Peter Port,
Guernsey, the son of late Captain Francis Sandys Dugmore
and the Hon Evelyn Mary Brougham of Brockhurst, Grange,
St Peter Port. He attended Elizabeth College, Guernsey
from September 1893 to December 1895 where he started
out as "wanting in application and troublesome"
and ended as "good or very good". He
married Ivanna (Ivy) May Stevens, the daughter of General
H Borlase Stevens on 21st July 1904 at St Joseph's Roman
Catholic Church, St Peter Port, Guernsey.
He was commissioned Captain in the Cheshire
Regiment on 22nd Nov 1906, serving in Jersey in 1911.
Reported as wounded and prisoner of war on 19th Sept
1914 and then, killed in action whilst with the 1st
Battalion Cheshire Regiment at Mons (GWP).
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He would have been the first Guernseyman
reported as killed. A fellow officer reported to his
wife in letter dated 19th September 1914 that Captain
Dugmore was with him as a prisoner at Torgau Camp near
Hanover. He had been captured on 24th August 1914 and
repatriated in June 1918 and promoted to Major.
He was living at Cambridge Barracks, Woolwich
in 1919. Major Dugmore retired to Guernsey where he
was Government Secretary to the Lieutenant Governor
and died at Maison Blanche, Queens Road, St Peter Port
on 28th February 1932.