When Dudley George Hedding was born on 7 January 1894 in Johannesburg, Gauteng, South Africa, his father, Ernulphus, was 43 and his mother, Sarah, was 41. He had three brothers and five sisters. He died on 12 March 1916 at the age of 22, and was buried in Taveta, Coast, Kenya.

Alastair Honeybun