Edgar McCloughry
Edgar Kingston-McCloughry | |
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| Born | 10 September 1896 First World War
Second World War
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| Awards | Mentioned in Despatches (3) |
| Relations | Wilfred McClaughry (brother) |
Military career
McCloughry joined the Australian Imperial Force in 1914, and served as a military engineer in Egypt and France before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps (RFC) in December 1916. He graduated from flying training in August 1917 and was posted to No. 23 Squadron RFC on the Western Front. He was seriously injured in a crash shortly thereafter and, after recovering in hospital, was reassigned as a flight instructor. He was reassigned again in 1918 to the Australian Flying Corps (AFC). He scored most of his victories there in the last few months of the war.
McCloughry left the AFC in August 1919 and pursued a career as an engineer in the United Kingdom before joining the
McCloughry retired from the RAF in 1953 as an air vice-marshal, and died in 1972 in Edinburgh.
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