The Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment
Lieutenant F S Vaughan
Photograph by "Thanos Foteinos"
Lieutenant Francis Seymour VAUGHAN, Queens Own Royal West Kent Regiment, (attached Royal Flying Corps), killed 17th March 1918, age 27.
1911 Census - Ingledene, Friars Road, Sale, Cheshire - Francis Vaughan, head, age 49, married, Secretary of Steam Ship Company, Shipping, worker, born Liverpool, Lancashire; Sara Vaughan, wife, age 42, married 22 years, 3 children, all still alive, born South Shields, Durham; Seymour Vaughan, son, age 21, single, Insurance Clerk, Insurance, worker, born Liverpool, Lancashire; Olive Vaughan, daughter, age 19, single, born Liverpool, Lancashire; Keith Vaughan, son, age 17, single, Shipping Merchants Clerk, Shipping, worker, born Liverpool, Lancashire; Margaret Jennings, visitor, age 50, married, 1child, still alive, born South Shields, Durham; Jennie Carson, servant, age 40, single, servant, domestic, worker, born Aberdeen.
Fathers address given on Medal Card - The Turrett, Washway Road, Ashton-on-Mersey, Cheshire
4th November 918, Probate - Francis Seymour Vaughan, of Ingledene, Friars Road, Sale, Cheshire, Lieutenant Royal West Kent Regiment, attached R.A.Force, died 17th March 1918, in Greece. Administration London 4th November to Francis Edward Vaughan, secretary to a Limited Company. Effects £159 7s 4d.
Buried at Struma Military Cemetery, Kalokastron, Regional Unit of Serres, Central Macedonia, Greece.
NOTE: Officers Died in the Great War says 5th Battalion Royal West Kent Regiment; CWGC web says 2nd/4th Battalion.
London Gazette 16th October 1915.
Royal West Kent Regiment. - Private Francis Seymour Vaughan, 3823, from The London Regiment, to be Second Lieutenant. Dated 1st October, 1915.
London Gazette 22nd October 1917.
Royal Flying Corps - Military Wing. -The under mentioned appointments are made: Flying Officers. -
2nd Lieutenant F. S. Vaughan, Royal West Kent Regiment, Territorial Force, and to be seconded. - 3rd August 1917.
London Gazette 30th November 1917.
Royal West Kent Regiment - The under mentioned 2nd Lieutenants to be Lieutenants - 1st July 1917 : F. S. Vaughan.
London Gazette 14th June 1918.
I have the honour to forward herewith a list of Officers, Ladies and Non-Commissioned Officers and Men, serving or have served under my Command, whose distinguished and gallant services and devotion to duty I consider deserving of special mention.
I have the honour to be, My Lord, Your Lordship's most Obedient Servant, E H H Allenby, General
Royal Air Force - Vaughan, Lieutenant F S (formerly Royal West Kent Regiment)
Link to the Air Force Association of Canada - see under CROIL
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