Alexander Robertson McLauchlan

Forenames

Alexander Robertson AWMM

Surname

McLauchlan AWMM

Service number

WWI 10/922 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Place of birth

Dunedin

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 26 May 2023 - Military Record

Birth notes

Son of Hugh Murray McLauchlan and Elizabeth Kirk McLauchlan, of 117, Stafford St., Dunedin

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 26 May 2023 - https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/casualties/alexander-robertson-mclauchlan

Address before enlistment

• Unknown AWMM C/o Times Office, Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
• Occ. Reporter for the Gisborne Times Newspaper
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Next of kin

Hugh Murray McLauchlan, Main South Road, Dunedin, New Zealand AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 16 Oct 1914 AWMM Single AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM
• 1914-1916 AWMM Egypt AWMM
• 1915-1916 AWMM Gallipoli AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 10/922 AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 Unknown AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 16 Oct 1914-03 Dec 1914 AWMM
HMNZT 7 or HMNZT 10 AWMM Vessel was Arawa or Limerick AWMM Private AWMM Wellington Infantry Battalion AWMM Main Body AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Private AWMM
Wellington Infantry Battalion AWMM

Son of Hugh Murray McLauchlan and Elizabeth Kirk McLauchlan, of 117, Stafford St., Dunedin

Next of Kin: Mr H. M. McLaughlan, Stafford St., Dunedin (Roll of Honour, Auckland Province 1914-1918 (Volume 2)) AWMM

Death

8 Aug 1915 AWMM
Age  23 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Death notes

Alexander had been wounded on the tops and was being carried down on a stretcher by two Australian stretcher bearers when he was shot again by a Turkish sniper. He died shortly afterwards from this wound. This story was brought back to his mother in Dunedin by one of the Aussies when he visited Dunedin and passed on the story of Alex's death. Alex was my Grandfathers brother. My grandfather survived the war.

Public - Steven - Other relative - 12 May 2021 - Information provided to me by my grandmother who was Alex's brothers wife.

Obituary

PRIVATE A. R. McLAUGHLAN. Among this morning’s list of those killed in action at the Dardanelles appears the name of Private Alexander Robertson McLauchlan, a member of the literary staff of the "Gisborne Times,” who proceeded to the front with the main Expeditionary Force. Private McLauchlan, who was 23 years of age, was a son of Mr A. McLauchlan, of Main South Road. Caversham, Dunedin. Private McLauchlan was educated at Dunedin public schools, and he entered on a journalistic career on the staff of the Dunedin “Star.” He next secured a position as reporter on the “Timarc Post,” and later went over to the “Timaru Herald.” He joined the literary staff of this journal about two and a half years ago, and very shortly after the outbreak of the war offered his services, and put in some months training at Awapuni and Trentham military camps. He was of a particularly bright and happy nature., and made friends wherever he went. The news of his death, came as a sad blow to the members of the staff of the “Times,” and to a wide circle of friends, who only a few months ago wished him God speed in his departure for the front. He was an active member of the Gisborne Rowing Club, arid took a keen interest in all forms of sport, concerning which he wrote in a bright and racy style.

Public - Lorraine Mona - Researcher - 26 May 2023 - GISBORNE TIMES, VOLUME XLV, ISSUE 4020, 28 AUGUST 1915, PAGE 5

Memorial name

• Chunuk Bair (New Zealand) Memorial, Chunuk Bair Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey AWMM
• Auckland War Memorial Museum, World War 1 Hall of Memories AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R10925877
  Further Reference
• SCRoll profile (South Canterbury Roll of Honour)
  https://museum.timaru.govt.nz/explore/scroll/profile?id=1905
  Further Reference
• A Street Near You record
  https://astreetnearyou.org/person/680170/-
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission Casualty record
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/680170
  Further Reference

References

• Information kindly provided by family
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Vol1: 463
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 4: Includes portrait
• Roll of Honour, Auckland Province (digital copy), 1914 - 1919. Auckland War Memorial Museum Library. MS-2016-2.
• Waite, F. (1919). The New Zealanders at Gallipoli. Auckland, N.Z.: Printed and published under Authority of the New Zealand Government by Whitcombe & Tombs.