MCLOUGHLIN, Eric Markham
| Service Number: | H1292 |
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| Enlisted: | 21 August 1940 |
| Last Rank: | Able Seaman |
| Last Unit: | HMAS Goorangai |
| Born: | Hobart, Tasmania, Australia, 30 August 1896 |
| Home Town: | Hobart, Tasmania |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Seaman |
| Died: | Ship Collision, Port Phillip Bay, Victoria, Australia, 20 November 1940, aged 44 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Plymouth Naval Memorial to the Missing / Lost at Sea, Queenscliff HMAS Goorangai Memorial |
World War 2 Service
| 3 Sep 1939: | Involvement H1292 | |
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| 21 Aug 1940: | Enlisted Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, H1292 | |
| 20 Nov 1940: | Discharged Royal Australian Navy, Able Seaman, H1292, HMAS Goorangai |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Faithe Jones
Son of Frank Joseph and Christina Mary McLoughlin, of Hobart, Tasmania, Australia.
Stoker Eric ("Tassie") Markham Mclaughlin was a son of Mr. Frank McLoughlin and Mrs. Florence McLoughlin, 20 Lewis St., Hobart.
Mr. E. M. McLoughlin, who had served in sail and steam, had been a seaman all his life, and had seen practically every port of any size in the world. He had been with more than one expedition to the Antarctic. He was serving on the R.M.S. Niagara during, the Great War when he enlisted
in the Royal Australian Navy, and was appointed to H.M.A.S. Parramatta. He served with distinction in the war, during which he received an Italian award for life saving. After the war he rejoined the mercantile marine. His last visit to Hobart was on the Waiotap, which brought machinery for Australian Newsprint Mills Pty. Ltd.'s plant at Boyer. He enlisted again in the Royal Australian Navy, and applied to serve with a special patrol.
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