220740 L/Cpl. Dennis John "Duggie" Duggan British Army 3rd Battalion Grenadier Guards from:Leicester Dennis Duggan is my Granddad.
He was trained at Caterham and went abroad to Algiers and Tunisia) in 1942. He went onto Sicily, up the west side of Italy via Anzio, Florence, Monte Cassino, Rome.
A funny story he's told was whilst on guard he was showing this Italian policeman a flare gun, suddenly the flare went off - just then his CO came along who said "Keep awake Corporal Duggan"
He was a great boxer and once he had a fight where he and his opponent were blindfolded. My Granddad kept getting hit and he thought "crikey this bloke's good!" When they took the blindfolds off there was the sergeant with a boxing glove on a stick!
During reconnaissance he had to return as he was getting fired on by his own shells.
Some of the names he talked about were: - Lord Harewood/Lascelles,
- Captain Rowley,
- Captain MacClean,
- Sergeant Webb known as 'Boops'
- Sergeant known as 'dad'
- Jim Erskine.
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