The Queens Own Royal West Kent R

The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment

Lance Corporal T H Vaughan

Chester Town Hall, War Memorial - Photographs by "Chris Kemp"

Family memorial to Thomas Henry (Harry) Vaughan - Old Overleigh Cemetery, Chester.

Photograph by "Mike McQuaid"

Lance Corporal Thomas Henry VAUGHAN, G/31563, 6th Battalion, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment (formerly Cheshire Regiment, Service No.32900 / Border Regiment, Service No.33265), killed in action Flanders France, 19th September 1918, age 23.

Born Chester, Cheshire, son of Thomas & Alice Vaughan, of Heathcote, Boughton Heath, Chester, Cheshire.

1911 Census - Boughton Heath, Chester, Cheshire - Thomas Vaughan, head, age 63., married, market gardener, employer, born Boughton, Cheshire; Alice King Vaughan, wife, age 55, married 37 years, 7 children, 6 still alive, assisting in business, at home, born Boughton, Cheshire; William Vaughan, son, age 25, single, gardener son assistant, assisting in business, worker, at home, born Boughton, Cheshire; Mary Vaughan, daughter, age 31, single, gardener, daughter, assisting in business, worker, at home, born Boughton, Cheshire; Richard Vaughan, son, age 23, single, gardener, assistant, assisting in business, worker, at home, born Boughton, Cheshire; Thomas Henry Vaughan, son, age 15, single, gardener, assistant, assisting in business, worker, at home, born Boughton, Cheshire.

Enlisted Chester, Cheshire.

Commemorated at Vis-en-Artois Memorial, Panel 7., Pas de Calais, France.

AWARDS: MM, France - Croix De Guerre

London Gazette 29th November 1918.

War Office, 29th November. 1918.

The following are among the Decorations and medals awarded by the Allied Powers at various dates to the British Forces for distinguished services rendered during the course of the campaign.

His Majesty the King has given unrestricted permission in all cases to wear the Decorations • and medals in question.

Decorations conferred by THE PRESIDENT OF THE FRENCH REPUBLIC.

Croix de Guerre.

31563 Private (Lance-Corporal) Thomas Henry Vaughan, 6th Battalion, Royal West Kent Regiment, formerly 8th Battalion, Border Regiment (Boughton Heath).

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