One of Kitchner’s Kids

Type of resource
Author/collaborator
Title
One of Kitchner’s Kids
Abstract
Herrick Stevenson Duggan (1891-1915) was from the privileged world of Montreal’s anglo-elite society. At the outbreak of the First World War, he was rejected for enlistment in the Canadian army. He then moved to England where the British regular army, decimated in the war’s early battles, was being replaced by Field Marshall Earl Kitchener’s New Armies of newly recruited soldiers. Duggan, an engineer by training with bridge-building experience, accepted a commission in the Royal Engineers, becoming one of “Kitchener’s Kids,” as new recruits were called. Duggan was fatally wounded in an assault on a German trench on October 18, 1915.
Publication
The Beaver
Volume
Vol. 78
Issue
no. 1
Pages
11-19
Date
1998
Language
en
Citation
Hotchkiss, Ron. “One of Kitchner’s Kids.” The Beaver Vol. 78, no. 1 (1998): 11–19.
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