Dugdale, Daniel

BORN ACCRINGTON 10/03/1888. ONLY SON OF FRED DUGDALE (1863-1937) & ALICE ANN WHITTAKER (1865-1955), OF 9 ELMS AVENUE, LYTHAM, LANCASHIRE, AND “BEVERLY”, LAMBS ROAD, THORNTON-LE-FYLDE, LANCS (CWGC ADDRESS). HE HAD AN ELDER SISTER, CALLED GRACE. EX. MEMBER OF HULL’S PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY. HE BOARDED AT THE ABOVE ADDRESS. HE ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS, SERVED IN EGYPT AND FRANCE. PROMOTED TO CAPTAIN IN THE 10TH EAST YORKSHIRE REGIMENT. HE WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 28/09/1918, AGED 30. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 08/10/1918. HE LEFT £409 IN HIS WILL TO HIS FATHER, FRED. HE IS BURIED AT PONT-D’ACHELLES MILITARY CEMETERY, NIEPPE.
Hull Pals Memorial Post. CAPTAIN DANIEL DUGDALE. Born in 1888 in Accrington, Daniel was the youngest of two children and the only son of Fred and Alice Dugdale of ‘Beverley’, Lambs Road, Thornton-le-Fylde. He was educated at Rossal School. It was work that took Daniel to Hull. He was employed as Assistant Engineer to the Humber Conservancy Board and was lodging at 79 Park Street, a place I know only too well having lived just up the road myself. Before the war he was a member of the Hull Philharmonic Society. Daniel was one of the original Pals and served in all their major campaigns through Egypt, the Somme, Oppy Wood and the staggered retreat before the German Spring Offensive. He was killed in action on 28th September 1918 as the battalion attacked those concrete pillboxes in Ploegsteert Wood. Daniel is buried at Pont D’Achelles Military Cemetery in Nieppe; he was 30 years old. I found a mention of him in an account by a Private Graham who remembered him preparing for an attack on the night of the 27-28th June 1918:
“During the night Lieut.—Colonel Rigg and Captain Dugdale arranged the gaps in our wire and all was ready before dawn. Our barrage came down at 6 a.m. and the Battalion at once set off in four ” waves ” through the tall standing corn and passed through the ” lanes ” in the wire without difficulty.”
He was apparently, “a very popular original member of the battalion who had entertained the troops with his violin playing.”