Chaplain’s war bravery medal up for auction

A Military Cross awarded to an Irish chaplain for bravery during the Second World War goes under the hammer in Cork tonight.

Auctioneer Tom Woodward said that he hopes Fr Tom Duggan’s Military Cross — the first awarded to a chaplain during the war and which is being offered for sale in a lot with some of his other military medals — will remain in his native city.

“Our job is to realise the highest price but in an ideal world, it would be kept in Cork,” Mr Woodward said.