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DUGGAN, Micheal Andrew
(Service number 7/40)

New Zealanders and Australians in England — This image appeared int he Otago Witness on 5 January 1916, captioned as follows:
Design prepared by the inmates of a Convalescent Home at Woodcote Park, Epsom, Surrey. Back row (from left): Lance-corporal Coulter (Otago), Trooper Class (Auckland) Trooper Kerwin (Otago), Trooper P. O'Callaghan (Southland). Front row: Trooper A. Wood, Corporal Lucas (Otago), Teuta (Maori Contingent), Trooper M. Duggan (Wray’s Bush, Southland). (Courtesy of Papers Past at http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/ )

Aliases	NZBDM records birth surname as "Dugan"
First Rank	Trooper	Last Rank

Birth

Date	1889	Place of Birth	Clinton

Enlistment Information

Date	13 August 1914	Age	24
Address at Enlistment	Waimate
Occupation	Engine Driver
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Duggan, Knapdale Post-office, via Gore, New Zealand
Religion	Roman Catholic
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date	16 October 1916
Transport	Tahiti or Athenic
Embarked From	Lyttelton, New Zealand	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals	1914-15 Star, British War Medal, Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	15 March 1916	Reason	Medically unfit

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Wounded twice at Walkers Ridge, Gallipoli, 17 August and 4 September 1915. Sent to England on hospital ship with gun shot wound to left calf. Invalided home on the Rotorua, 5 February 1916

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	23 November 1965	Age	75
Place of Death	Napier
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Wharerangi Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Sec 14 Plot 6
New Zealand Memorials	St Patrick's (Waimate) Memorial list (June 2015)

Biographical Notes

Michael was the fifth child (and third son) of James & Bridget Duggan, born at Popotunoa (the former name for Clinton). Michael's birth was registered under the surname "Dugan" with NZ Births, Deaths, and Marriages in 1889, despite his service records recording his birth as 29 July 1890.

The Otago Witness reported that Michael was wounded in 1915, noting that: "Trooper M. A. Duggan, of the Eighth Regiment, South Canterbury Mounted Rifles, is the third son of Mrs Duggan, Knapdale, and is 24 years of age. Prior to his departure with the Main Expeditionary Force, he resided in the Waimate district, where he followed the occupation of engine-driver. Trooper Duggan was wounded in the knee on July 26."

After the war Michael married Freda Thistle Wallace after the war in 1930.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph database (May 2015); Archives New Zealand SCRoll web submission from T Connolly, 6 January 2022; New Zealand BDM Historical Records [7 January 2022]; Otago Witness 1 September 1915, courtesy of Papers Past at http://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/ [12 January 2022]

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Researched and Written by

Liz Shea, SC branch NZSG

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