Sergeant Douglas Allan Roughton [28027] ¹

  Noted events in his life were:

• Newspaper: OVERCROWDED SCHOOL, 1938 Apr 23, Melbourne, , Victoria, Australia. ² OVERCROWDED SCHOOL. (1938, April 23). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 -1956), p. 15. Retrieved August 8, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11159176>

OVERCROWDED
SCHOOL
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Hampton Awards
The president of the Hampton High School Council (Councillor W. L. Simp-son) visited the school yesterday to pre-sent prefects' badges to the following students who have been appointed pre-fects for 1938:-… Boys-Kenneth Gates (head prefect), Olaf Anderson, Douglas Roughton, Mcpherson Roberts,
and Jack Sercombe. …

• Newspaper: RESCUED FROM BLAZING BOAT, 1940 Feb 22, Melbourne, , Victoria, Australia. ³ RESCUED FROM BLAZING BOAT. (1940, February 22). The Argus (Melbourne, Vic. : 1848 -1956), p. 3. Retrieved August 8, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article11281962>

RESCUED FROM BLAZING BOAT
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YOUTH BURNED
At grave risk to themselves two members of the Sandringham Yacht Club last night rescued Douglas Roughton, 18, of Gordon street, Hampton, when he was trapped aboard his father's blazing speedboat about 300 yards off the Sandringham pier.
Roughton had been cruising on the bay after dinner, and was re-turning to the moorings when the engine backfired. In a second the craft was enveloped in flames, and as he strove frantically to extin-guish them he was severely burned about both legs and on the hands and face. Almost blinded by smoke, and suffering great pain, he con-tinued to fight the fire.
Fortunately his plight was seen by two members of the yacht club, who went to his assistance and dragged him aboard their craft. They then extinguished the flames and towed the damaged speedboat to the shore.
After he had received first aid treatment Roughton was admitted to a private hospital at Brighton, where his condition later was re-ported to be satisfactory.

• Newspaper: SPEED BOAT BURST INTO FLAMES, 1940 Feb 22, Burnie, , Tasmania, Australia. ⁴ SPEED BOAT BURST INTO FLAMES. (1940, February 22). Advocate (Burnie, Tas. : 1890 -1954), p. 7. Retrieved August 8, 2012, from <http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article68286489>SPEED BOAT BURST INTO FLAMES
Driver Badly Burned
MELBOURNE, Wednesday.
When his speed boat, Hermoa, burst into flames 300 yards from Hampton Pier early this evening, Douglas Roughton (18), of Hamp-ton, was trapped, and nearly lost his life. He was rescued by mem-bers of the Sandringham Yacht Club.
Roughton received severe burns to both legs and slight burns to the face. He was admitted to hospital.
The boat was stationary when the fire occurred. Roughton apparently was trying to start the engine, when a flash back ignited the petrol tank. He was burned while trying to put out the flames.
A few minutes after he was rescued the boat was burned almost to the waterline.

• Military Service: 1 Operational Training Unit, 1941 Dec 12 to 1946 Jan 9. ⁵ Name
ROUGHTON, DOUGLAS ALLEN
Service
Royal Australian Air Force
Service Number
49404
Date of Birth
2 Feb 1922
Place of Birth
BRIGHTON BEACH, VIC
Date of Enlistment
12 Dec 1941
Locality on Enlistment
HAMPTON
Place of Enlistment
MELBOURNE, VIC
Next of Kin
ROUGHTON, HAROLD
Date of Discharge
9 Jan 1946
Rank
Sergeant
Posting at Discharge
1 Operational Training Unit
WW2 Honours and Gallantry
None for display
Prisoner of War
No

• Obituary: Gold Coast Bulletin, 2012 Apr 11, Gold Coast, Queensland, Australia. ⁶ ROUGHTON
Doug
Obituary
31MAR2012
Death
90
late of Gold Coast
Gold Coast Bulletin
11APR2012

Douglas married Jacqueline Linda Munro [26773] [MRIN: 10504], daughter of Jack Samuel Munro [26771] and Martha Jane Temperance Webster [23237].