Five: Farrier Quartermaster Sergeant W. L. Vaughan, Royal Field Artillery

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 7 clasps, Cape Colony, Tugela Heights, Orange Free State, Relief of Ladysmith, Laing’s Nek, Belfast, South Africa 1901, unofficial rivets between sixth and seventh clasps (5779 Shng: Sth: W. L. Vaughan. 61st. Bty. R.F.A.); India General Service 1908-35, 2 clasps, North West Frontier 1908, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (5779 Fr. Q.Mr.S., W. L. Vaughan 18th. By. R.F.A.); British War Medal 1914-20 (5779 W.O. Cl.2. W. L. Vaughan. R.A.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (5779 F.Q.M. Sjt: W. L. Vaughan. R.F.A.); Special Constabulary Long Service Medal, G.V.R. (William L. Vaughan.) nearly very fine and better, and an uncommon combination (5) £400-£500

William Lewis Vaughan was born in the village of Tolleshunt D’Arcy, Essex, around 1876. A shoeing smith by trade, he attested for the Royal Artillery on 13 September 1894 and served in South Africa from 11 November 1899 to 18 May 1901 having earlier passed a veterinary course at Aldershot and a carriage smith course at Woolwich. Transferred to the North West Frontier of India on 6 February 1908, he was awarded the L.S.G.C. Medal with gratuity in 1913 and is entitled to the BWM for Great War service. His Army Service Record confirms entitlement and notes discharge from No. 4 Depot, R.F.A., on 13 September 1920.