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WW1
VAUGHAN, BEN
Studio portrait of 2nd Lieutenant Ben Vaughan, 12th Battalion, of Lunawanna, Tas. An orchardist prior to his enlistment on 21 September 1915, he embarked for service on 18 February 1916 with the 15th Reinforcements. He was later promoted to the rank of lieutenant. Vaughan was killed in action on 21 April 1918 in France , aged 24.
Official
notification reached Mr Wm
H Vaughan of “Thornbury” Lunawanna, on Wednesday that
his son Lieut Ben Vaughan, 12th Battalion,
was killed in action on April 21. He is the second of Mr
Vaughan's «ons
to render the supreme sacrifice, Sergeant William
Vaughan having been
killed in action in Belgium on October
12 1916. Of the fifty-five volunteers
whose parents are from Bruny Island,
Lieutenant Vaughan is the seventeenth to lay down his
life for
the Empire and liberty’s cause He,
like his brother Sergeant Vaughan, was
a fine young man and one of Bruny's
most highly respected and estimable
young citizens Another of Mr
Vaughan's
sons (Corporal Edward P
Vaughan) is in the A 1 F. The Mercury 6th May 1918
Photo Courtesy Josephine Colahan
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