title: Davitt Coghlan
text: # Davitt Coghlan
  
  Michael Davitt Coghlan (28 December 1907 – 10 October 1964) was an Australian rules footballer who played with Fitzroy in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
  
  ## Family
  
  The son of Michael Coghlan (-1956), and Annie Coghlan (-1940), Michael Davitt Coghlan was born at Coburg, Victoria on 28 December 1907.
  
  His brother, Arthur Emmett "Bull" Coghlan (1902-1959), played VFl football for Geelong.
  
  He married Patricia Genevieve O'Keefe (1907-1957) in 1938.
  
  ## Military service
  
  He served with the Royal Australian Air Force in the Second World War.
  
  ## Death
  
  He died at St Vincent's Hospital in Fitzroy, Victoria on 10 October 1964.
  
  