207638 William Stratford DUGDALE, MC, MiD, 3 Grenadier Guards

Personal Number: 207638
Rank: Captain
Name: William Stratford DUGDALE, MC, MiD
Unit: Grenadier Guards; Warwickshire Yeomanry


London Gazette : 10 October 1941
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FOOT GUARDS.
The undermentioned Cadets to be 2nd Lts. 27th Sept. 1941:—
Gren. G'ds.
William Stratford DUGDALE (207638)

London Gazette : 23 September 1943
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The KING has been graciously pleased to approve the following awards in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in North Africa: —
The Military Cross.
Lieutenant William Stratford DUGDALE (207638), Grenadier Guards,
(Atherstone, Warwickshire)

London Gazette : 19 July 1945
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The KING has been graciously pleased to approve that the following be Mentioned in recognition of gallant and distinguished services in Italy: —
Foot Guards.
Gren. Gds.
Capt. (temp.) W. S. DUGDALE, M.C. (207638).

London Gazette : 20 June 1950
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FOOT GUARDS.
Gren. G'ds.
Lt. William Stratford DUGDALE (207638) late Warwickshire Yeo. T.A., to be Lt., 31st Aug. 1949 with seniority 1st Jan. 1949, and is granted the hon. rank of Capt.

London Gazette : 14 November 1968
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PRIVY COUNCIL OFFICE
NOMINATION OF SHERIFFS, 1968
The names of those who were nominated for Sheriffs in the Queen's Bench Division of the High Court of Justice on the morrow of Saint Martin in the seventeenth year of the Reign of Queen Elizabeth the Second and in the year of our Lord One thousand nine hundred and sixty-eight.
ENGLAND (except Cornwall and Lancashire)
Warwickshire—
Captain Sir William Stratford Dugdale, Bt., M.C., of Blyth Hall, Coleshill.

 

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Dugdale, William Stratford
Rank: Lieutenant
Service No: 207638
Regiment: 3 Battalion Grenadier Guards
Theatre of Combat or Operation: North Africa (Algeria, Tunisia)
Award: Military Cross
Date of Announcement in London Gazette: 23 September 1943
Date 1943-1944
Catalogue reference WO 373/2

1st Guards Brigade,
207638 War Substantive Lieutenant William Stratford DUGDALE, 3rd Battalion GRENADIER GUARDS

On the 13th January 1943 Lieutenant DUGDALE was in command of one of the two Platoons ordered to carry out a raid at dawn on a German position. As he approached the top of a high hill where the Germans were entrenched, the enemy fired several very lights and opened up on each side of him with two machine guns firing on fixed lines.

The Platoon lay low until the very lights died away and then Lieutenant DUGDALE led his men straight to the German positions. As they doubled forward up the slope, Lieutenant DUGDALE outstripped the rest of his Platoon by several yards and made straight for the trench which three Germans had just jumped into. He was pulled into the trench by two fo the enemy who grabbed him by his legs. One of the Germans very soon ran away and after exhausting his revolver ammunition he struggled for some minutes with the other two, holding one round his neck and pinning the other to the ground with his foot.

Shortly afterwards, the remainder of his Platoon arrived and both Germans were taken prisoner. Lieutenant DUGDALE led his men and prisoners back towards our own lines under heavy Machine Gun fire and brought all safely back * except on of the prisoners who could not face fire from his own machine guns and who was shot by our own men when he refused to continue.

On two or three other occasions since my Battalion has been in the front line, Lieutenant DUGDALE has led Fighting Patrols with great success and has always shown the utmost personal courage and initiative.

In one case in particular, he took his men straight into a Machine Gun nest, killed the crew, and withdrew his patrol without loss. Night after night he has led similar patrols, and always been the first to volunteer for further operations against the enemy.

I commend this Officer without hesitation for the immediate award of the Military Cross.

Signed G.W. HEBER-PERCY, Lieutenant-Colonel, Commanding 3rd Battalion GRENADIER GUARDS

*This part is not to be copied from the citation for publication in the press.

Granted M.C.

 

London Gazette : 19 July 1945
https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37184/supplement/3719/data.pdf

https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/37184/supplement/3729/data.pdf

 

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• Sir William Dugdale, 2nd Baronet - Wikipedia
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• Sir William Dugdale, Bt - obituary
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