[1] He had a long career in non-League football in North East England.
[4] In August 1914, shortly after the outbreak of the First World War, McLaughlin enlisted in the Northumberland Fusiliers in Jarrow.
[3] By the end of the month, he had been promoted to acting sergeant and was posted to the Western Front in December 1914.
[3] McLaughlin was killed by a sniper shortly after his unit had taken a German trench near Sint-Elooi, Belgium on the morning of 27 March 1916.
This biographical article related to association football in England, about a forward born in the 1880s, is a stub.