Dudley Skelton

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Major-General

Dudley Skelton

CB DSO
Born(1878-08-08)8 August 1878
Died2 March 1962(1962-03-02) (aged 83)
AllegianceFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  United Kingdom
Branch Flag of the British Army.svg British Army
Service years1902–1937
Rank Major-General
Conflicts First World War
Awards Companion of the Order of the Bath, Companion of the Distinguished Service Order, Mentioned in Dispatches

Major-General Dudley Sheridan Skelton, CB , DSO (8 August 1878 - 2 March 1962) was a British Army officer, author and physician.

Skelton was educated at Bloxham School. [1] He commissioned into the British Army as a probationary lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 1 September 1902. [2] Skelton served in the First World War and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order. He was promoted to brevet lieutenant-colonel in August 1917. [3] He was promoted to colonel in 1930. [4] In 1935 he became Honorary Surgeon to George V. [5] [6] He was invested as a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1936 Birthday Honours, while serving as Deputy Director of Medical Services, Southern Command, India. [7] He retired as a major-general on 13 October 1937. [8]

Skelton was a descendant of the playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan. [9] His niece was the writer Barbara Skelton. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ The Bloxhamist (1945), 346. https://docs.google.com/folderview?id=0B03xEYCatblXN04yQUNFNUlHNGM
  2. ↑ "No. 27470". The London Gazette . 2 September 1902. p. 5684.
  3. ↑ "No. 30252". The London Gazette (Supplement). 25 August 1917. p. 8853.
  4. ↑ "No. 33612". The London Gazette . 3 June 1930. p. 3492.
  5. ↑ "The Services". British Medical Journal. 2 (3903): 824. 1935. doi:10.1136/bmj.2.3903.824-b. PMC   2461506 .
  6. ↑ "No. 34209". The London Gazette . 18 October 1935. p. 6543.
  7. ↑ "No. 15294". The Edinburgh Gazette . 26 June 1936. p. 538.
  8. ↑ "No. 34443". The London Gazette . 12 October 1937. p. 6306.
  9. ↑ "Skelton, Barbara Olive (1916–1996), writer and literary femme fatale" . Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. 2004. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/58311.(Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  10. ↑ Tears Before Bedtime, Barbara Skelton, Hamish Hamilton, 1987, pp. 1, 7, 14-18, 72


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