Air Vice Marshal 'Edgar James Kingston McCloughry' CB, CBE, DSO, DFC and Bar (10 September 1896–15 November 1972) was an Australian World War I fighter pilot and flying ace. He shot down 21 aircraft and military balloons during the war, making him the 6th highest-scoring Australian ace. He was also awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Distinguished Flying Cross and Bar as well as being Mentioned in Dispatches. He joined the AIF in December 1915, and served as a military engineer in Egypt and France before transferring to an RFC in December 1916. He graduated from there in August 1917 and was posted to the 23rd Squadron of the RFC on the Western Front. He was seriously injured in a crash shortly thereafter, and, after recovering in hospital, was assigned as a flight instructor. He was reassigned again in the summer of 1918 to the AFC. He scored most of his victories there in the last few months of the war. He left the AFC in August 1919 and pursued a career as an engineer in the UK before joining the RAF in 1922. He served there in a strategy-planning capacity through World War II. He retired from the RAF in 1953 as an Air Vice Marshal. He died in 1972 in Edinburgh.
He had a brother who also became an Air Vice-Marshal. Wilfred Ashton Kingston-McCloughry CB DSO MC DFC was born on 26th Nov 1894; he later dropped the "Kingston" to avoid confusion with his brother, but he didn't half confuse future researchers who look for them in alphabetical lists. After serving in Egypt and Gallipoli he joined the RFC, commanding 71 (Australian) Squadron (a Camel unit) from 26/11/17, which became 4 sqdn AFC in February. After the war he remained in the RAF and had various staff jobs mainly in the Middle East. He was killed in a crash as a passenger at Cairo on 4th January 1943; the wife of Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder, AOC Middle East, was among those also killed.
I found this on Flickr ! .... Portrait of Major Wilfred Ashton McCloughry MC ... theres some other terrific photos in the set !! http://www.flickr.com/photos/australian-war-memorial/3288054135/
