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).

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.