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Rifleman Connell Duggan

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Rifleman Connell Duggan

Birth
Glenties, County Donegal, Ireland
Death
29 Apr 1916 (aged 22)
Dublin, County Dublin, Ireland
Burial
Kilmainham, County Dublin, Ireland Add to Map
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3/5470 Rifleman C. Duggan.
The Royal Irish Rifles.
3rd Battalion.

Aged 23.
Son of Bartley and Bridget Duggan, Calhame, Annagry, Co. Donegal.

Lived in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal.
Enlisted at Glasgow, Scotland.

He was Killed in Action during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
note.
He is named on the Memorial Wall in Glasnevin Cemetery as Cornelius Duggan, but he was corn Connell Duggan

Birth.
Connell Duggan, son of Bartle Duggan and Bridget Duggan, formerly Duggan, was born on 22 March 1893, at Calhame, Dungloe, Co. Donegal.
His farther was a Farmer.

Death Certificate.
Rifleman C. Duggan, of 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, was brought in Dead to the Meath Hospital, Dublin, on 29 April 1916.
The cause of death was Shot in Right Lung, certified.
The informant of his death was a member of the staff of the hospital, who registered his death on 11 May 1916.

Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:

DUGGAN, CON, Private, No. 5470, G Company, 3rd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, 2nd son of the late Bartley Duggan, of Calhame, Annagry, by his wife, Bridget (Calhame, Annagry, Co. Donegal), daughter of Michael Duggan, of Derrybeg, Gweedore, co. Donegal; b. Annagry, co. Donegal, 22 March, 1893; educated Mullaghduff National School; was an electric tram car driver, Lanarkshire Tramway. Enlisted, 14 Jan. 1916, and was killed during the fighting in Dublin about 30 April, 1916; unmarried. Buried in the grounds of the Royal Hospital there, 2 May.
His younger. brother was killed at Loos.

The above extract courtesy of
A Fifer in Exile

His brother
Private Patrick Duggan

His father
Bartley Dougan, d. 4 October 1930, aged 78

His name is included on the
1916 Easter Rising Memorial Wall
in Glasnevin Cemetery.
3/5470 Rifleman C. Duggan.
The Royal Irish Rifles.
3rd Battalion.

Aged 23.
Son of Bartley and Bridget Duggan, Calhame, Annagry, Co. Donegal.

Lived in Letterkenny, Co. Donegal.
Enlisted at Glasgow, Scotland.

He was Killed in Action during the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin.
note.
He is named on the Memorial Wall in Glasnevin Cemetery as Cornelius Duggan, but he was corn Connell Duggan

Birth.
Connell Duggan, son of Bartle Duggan and Bridget Duggan, formerly Duggan, was born on 22 March 1893, at Calhame, Dungloe, Co. Donegal.
His farther was a Farmer.

Death Certificate.
Rifleman C. Duggan, of 5th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles, was brought in Dead to the Meath Hospital, Dublin, on 29 April 1916.
The cause of death was Shot in Right Lung, certified.
The informant of his death was a member of the staff of the hospital, who registered his death on 11 May 1916.

Extract from The Roll of Honour, A Biographical record of all members of His Majesty's Naval and Military Forces who have fallen in the War, by the Marquis de Ruvigny, Volume I., The Standard Art Book Company, Ltd, December, 1916:

DUGGAN, CON, Private, No. 5470, G Company, 3rd Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, 2nd son of the late Bartley Duggan, of Calhame, Annagry, by his wife, Bridget (Calhame, Annagry, Co. Donegal), daughter of Michael Duggan, of Derrybeg, Gweedore, co. Donegal; b. Annagry, co. Donegal, 22 March, 1893; educated Mullaghduff National School; was an electric tram car driver, Lanarkshire Tramway. Enlisted, 14 Jan. 1916, and was killed during the fighting in Dublin about 30 April, 1916; unmarried. Buried in the grounds of the Royal Hospital there, 2 May.
His younger. brother was killed at Loos.

The above extract courtesy of
A Fifer in Exile

His brother
Private Patrick Duggan

His father
Bartley Dougan, d. 4 October 1930, aged 78

His name is included on the
1916 Easter Rising Memorial Wall
in Glasnevin Cemetery.

Inscription

SACRED
to the memory of
C.Q.M.S. J. COYLE, D.S.M.
3rd Royal Irish Rifles
killed in action in Dublin 30th April 1916
erected by his brother comrades
also in memory of
Rfm. C. DUGGAN, 3rd Royal Irish Rifles
and
Pte. LEEN, 5th Royal Lancers

R. I. P.

death divides, but memory clings



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  • Added: Mar 21, 2013
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  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/107047935/connell-duggan: accessed ), memorial page for Rifleman Connell Duggan (22 Mar 1894–29 Apr 1916), Find a Grave Memorial ID 107047935, citing Royal Hospital Cemetery, Kilmainham, County Dublin, Ireland; Maintained by John (contributor 47032041).