Medals of Ballinhassig clerical war hero at Woodwards

Medals awarded to Archdeacon Tom Duggan — the first chaplain to be awarded a Military Cross in the Second World War — come up at Woodwards at 6 pm next Wednesday.

The Cork native taught at St Finbarr’s College and Seminary before joining up in September 1939.

He had been a chaplain in Flanders during the First World War and was taken prisoner in 1918.