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MCLACHLAN, Douglas Bloomfield
Service Number: | 586 |
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Enlisted: | 16 March 1915, Orbost, Victoria |
Last Rank: | Corporal |
Last Unit: | 24th Infantry Battalion |
Born: | Port Adelaide, South Australia, 19 December 1880 |
Home Town: | Alberton, Port Adelaide, South Australia |
Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
Occupation: | Labourer & Clerk |
Died: | Natural Causes, Adelaide, South Australia, 28 October 1939, aged 58 years |
Cemetery: |
Cheltenham Cemetery, South Australia Section T, Drive D Path 11 Cheltham Cemetary Adelaide |
Memorials: | Semaphore Port Adelaide Presbyterian Church Roll of Honour WW1 |
World War 1 Service
16 Mar 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Orbost, Victoria | |
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10 May 1915: | Involvement AIF WW1, Private, 586, 24th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '14' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Euripides embarkation_ship_number: A14 public_note: '' | |
10 May 1915: | Embarked AIF WW1, Private, 586, 24th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Euripides, Melbourne | |
27 Aug 1917: | Discharged AIF WW1 | |
11 Nov 1918: | Involvement AIF WW1, Corporal, 586, 24th Infantry Battalion |
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Embarkation Roll (static.awm.gov.au) has incorrectly record Surname as McLacklan
Douglas Bloomfield Mclachlan married Lorraine Kingsborough in 1918 and she died in Adelaide in 1940.
"McLACHLAN.— On the 28th of Ocotber, at private hospital, Douglas Bloomfield, beloved husband of Laurie McLachlan, of No. 1 Eton street, Reade Park, beloved father of Joan and John, aged 58 years." - from the Adelaide Chronicle 02 Nov 1939 (nla.gov.au)