Douglas Bloomfield MCLACHLAN

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MCLACHLAN, Douglas Bloomfield

Service Number:	586
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

16 Mar 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Orbost, Victoria
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

Biography

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)

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