DUGGAN Maurice

Appears on the Army casualties list for Worcestershire.

A letter from the Reverend W.A. Trippass, St Peter, Droitwich dated 23rd May 1950 can be found within war records held at Worcestershire Archives requesting that Maurice Duggan be added to the county roll of honour.

The following information has been researched by and is courtesy of Peter Kennedy:
Killed in Action in Holland
L/Cpl M.B. Duggan
Lance Corporal Maurice Basil Duggan, son of Mr and Mrs Cyril Duggan, of Holloway House, The Holloway, Droitwich, has been killed while serving with an anti-tank unit in Holland. He was 20 years old and had been in the forces 21 months.
The Padre of his regiment, in a letter to Mr and Mrs Duggan, says that their son was guarding a bridge over the Escaut Canal on September 18 when the enemy made a heavy bombing raid on that area during the night. “He suffered no pain and did not recover consciousness,” says the Padre. “By the time he was brought to the regimental aid post he was dead.”
“The villagers,” the Padre adds, “have already brought flowers to lay on his grave at Eindhoven.”
Lance-Cpl Duggan, a grandson of the late Alderman Charles Everton and Mrs Everton, was educated at St Peter’s Boys School. He was always keenly interested in painting and drawing and on leaving school he was apprenticed for commercial art with Messrs. Clement Bros of Bromsgrove. He became a first-class sign-writer. And at the time of joining the Forces, he was employed by George Harrison and Son, Ltd., of Droitwich.
He was formerly a very keen member of the Droitwich unit of the Home Guard. He was an excellent shot.
Lance-Cpl Duggan, who was of a quiet and unassuming nature, with a homely disposition, was a fine craftsman as evidenced by his hobby of making small-scale models of various kinds.
Reported with photo.