Education
McClaughry was educated at Queen"s College North Adelaide and the University of Adelaide.
McClaughry was educated at Queen"s College North Adelaide and the University of Adelaide.
His senior commands included: British Forces Aden (1930s), and Number. 9 Group Royal Air Force, and Air Officer Commanding Air Officer Commanding Allied Headquarters Egypt (both during the Second World War). McClaughry was killed, while a passenger, in a flying accident in Cairo in 1943.
McClaughry joined the Militia in 1913 and served in the First World War with the 9th Light Horse Regiment, before transferring to the Royal Flying Corps (Reconstruction Finance Corporation) in 1916.
He was appointed Officer Commanding Number. 4 Squadron AFC (known in British circles as "71 Squadron").
After the war he joined the Royal Air Force and became Officer Commanding the Air Pilotage School in 1921. He was appointed Officer Commanding Number.
8 Squadron in 1924 and then spent three years as a staff officer at Headquarters Wessex Bombing Area.
McClaughry went on to be Station Commander at Royal Air Force Heliopolis in 1934 and Station Commander at Royal Air Force Mersa Matruh in 1934 before becoming Air Officer Commanding British Forces Aden in 1936. He became Director of Training at the Air Ministry in 1938. McClaughry served in the Second World War as Air Officer Commanding Number.
9 Group, a fighter group, during the Battle of Britain and then as Air Officer Commanding AHQ Egypt before being killed in an air accident in Cairo in 1943.