Major Kenneth Locke Duggan

Major Kenneth Locke Duggan
(1893-1917)

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Major Kenneth Locke Duggan ¹ ² ³ ⁴ ⁵

Born: 22 Mar 1893, Montreal, P.Q. ¹ ⁴
Died: 30 Oct 1917, First Great War aged 24 ¹ ⁶ ⁷ ⁸
Buried: Ypres, (Menin Gate), Ieper, West Flanders, Belgium ⁸

bullet General Notes:

In memory of Major
KENNETH LOCKE DUGGAN
who died on October 30, 1917.

Military Service:

Age: 24
Force: Army
Regiment: 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)

Additional Information:

Son of George Herrick Duggan and Mildred Scarth Stevensen Duggan, of 120, McTavish St., Montreal.

bullet Research Notes:

The Menin Gate is one of four memorials to the missing in Belgian Flanders which cover the area known as the Ypres Salient. Broadly speaking, the Salient stretched from Langemarck in the north to the northern edge in Ploegsteert Wood in the south, but it varied in area and shape throughout the war. The Salient was formed during the First Battle of Ypres in October and November 1914, when a small British Expeditionary Force succeeded in securing the town before the onset of winter, pushing the German forces back to the Passchendaele Ridge. The Second Battle of Ypres began in April 1915 when the Germans released poison gas into the Allied lines north of Ypres. This was the first time gas had been used by either side and the violence of the attack forced an Allied withdrawal and a shortening of the line of defence. There was little more significant activity on this front until 1917, when in the Third Battle of Ypres an offensive was mounted by Commonwealth forces to divert German attention from a weakened French front further south. The initial attempt in June to dislodge the Germans from the Messines Ridge was a complete success, but the main assault north-eastward, which began at the end of July, quickly became a dogged struggle against determined opposition and the rapidly deteriorating weather. The campaign finally came to a close in November with the capture of Passchendaele. The German offensive of March 1918 met with some initial success, but was eventually checked and repulsed in a combined effort by the Allies in September. The battles of the Ypres Salient claimed many lives on both sides and it quickly became clear that the commemoration of members of the Commonwealth forces with no known grave would have to be divided between several different sites. The site of the Menin Gate was chosen because of the hundreds of thousands of men who passed through it on their way to the battlefields. It commemorates those of all Commonwealth nations (except New Zealand) who died in the Salient, in the case of United Kingdom casualties before 16 August 1917. Those United Kingdom and New Zealand servicemen who died after that date are named on the memorial at Tyne Cot, a site which marks the furthest point reached by Commonwealth forces in Belgium until nearly the end of the war. Other New Zealand casualties are commemorated on memorials at Buttes New British Cemetery and Messines Ridge British Cemetery. The YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL now bears the names of more than 54,000 officers and men whose graves are not known. The memorial, designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield with sculpture by Sir William Reid-Dick, was unveiled by Lord Plumer in July 1927.

bullet Noted events in his life were:

• profession: Engineer, 1915, Montreal, P.Q. ⁴

1 George Herrick Duggan, copy of same in possession of Richard (Dick) Duggan of Kelowna, B.C., 4 pages of descendant charts.

2 http://www.vac-acc.gc.ca. In memory of Major KENNETH LOCKE DUGGAN
who died on October 30, 1917.

Military Service:

Age: 24
Force: Army
Regiment: 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment)

Additional Information:

Son of George Herrick Duggan and Mildred Scarth Stevensen Duggan, of 120 McTavish St., Montreal.

3 Toronto Star?.
HERRICK DUGGAN NOTED ENGINEER KILLED BY CAR

Native of Toronto, Leading Figure in Sport, Finance and Industry, Victim of Accident in Quebec

One of the "grand old men" of Canadian Engineering and a leading figure in Canada's sport, finance and industry, Herrick Duggan died instantly of injuries received in a three-car accident near St. Jerome, Que., yesterday. He was struck by his own automobile from which he had alighted. A truck, struck by a third car, crashed into Mr. Duggan's auto and hurled it against him. The impact broke his neck. [some details of a previous injury]

Born in Toronto Sept. 6th, 1862, George Herrick Duggan was the son of John Duggan, Queen's Council, and Amelia Tulloh Duggan. The family home was in Windsor street, then a private street, a fashionable area overlooking the harbour and enclosed by iron gates. The Duggans came to York shortly after Simcoe founded it, and had an estate up Yonge street, below Thornhill, with a mill and salmon fishery, ere the 18th century ended.

SURVEYED FOR CPR
[details]
But he was interested in sailing from his early boyhood, and was one of the pioneers of sailing on Toronto Island.

HONORED BY COLLEGES
He held two honorary LL.D. degreees, from Queens's and McGill, as well as the D. Sc he gained at Toronto.

[career details], president and managing director of the Dominion Bridge Co, [etc, etc.]

SONS DIED IN WAR
Mr. Duggan was the father of two sons, both of whom he lost in the First Great War. Lt. H.S. Duggan, RE, being killed in action in 1915, and Major K. L. Duggan in 1917. His daughter is the wife of Senator the Hon. Adrian Knatchbull-Hugessen

He held the Royal Humane Society medal for saving life on Lake St. Louis, awarded in 1893.

An inquest will be held, it was announced today.
_______________________________________

Toronto Evening Telegram, 1946

[deatails of the fatal car accident]

Herrick Duggan's figure stands high on Canada's horizon. Born in Toronto, and great grandson of that Col. Duggan whose venerable figure is seen in the early photograph of the last muster of Toronto veterans of the War of 1812, he did more for this country than even his valiant ancestor.

[details of his engineering career inc. the building of the the Quebec Bridge, spanning the St. Lawrence River above Wolfe's Cove. ]

[details of his sailing career and yacht designs]

5 Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Name: DUGGAN, HERRICK STEVENSON Initials: H S Nationality: United Kingdom Rank: Lieutenant Regiment: Royal Engineers Age: 24 Date of Death: 21/10/1915 Additional information: Son of George Herrick Duggan and Mildred Scarth Stevenson, his wife, of Toronto, Canada. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: II. K. 10. Cemetery: BETHUNE TOWN CEMETERY

Name: DUGGAN, KENNETH LOCKE Initials: K L Nationality: Canadian Rank: Major Regiment: 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment) Age: 24 Date of Death: 30/10/1917 Additional information: Son of George Herrick Duggan and Mildred Scarth Stevensen Duggan, of 120, McTavish St., Montreal. Casualty Type: Commonwealth War Dead Grave/Memorial Reference: Panel 30, 32. Cemetery: YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL

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