[1][2] Their son, Hugh McLaughlin Jr., also played over 100 games for South Melbourne and also represented Victoria at interstate level.
McLaughlin was a gutsy half back flanker for South Melbourne, and was a key player with the 1933 premiership side.
As well as playing 96 games for South Melbourne, he also represented Victoria at interstate football.
[3] He died at the Western General Hospital, in Footscray, Victoria, on the 4 February 1977.
This Australian rules football biography of a person born in 1909 is a stub.