Robert Patrick VAUGHAN

Regimental number18021
Date of birth11 May 1893
Place of birthWestport
ReligionRoman Catholic
OccupationClerk
Next of kinWife, Mrs Lily Vaughan, Otane, Hawke's Bay
Rank on embarkation2nd Lieutenant
Unit nameNew Zealand Expeditionary Force, New Zealand Rifle Brigade, 7th Reinforcements to 4th Battalion, H Company
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Wellington on board Navua on 20 August 1916
Final rank2nd Lieutenant
Final unit2nd Battalion, New Zealand Rifle Brigade
FateKilled in Action 12 October 1917
Place of burialNo known grave
Commemoration detailsTyne Cot Memorial (New Zealand Apse, Panel No 7), Belgium
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Wife: Lilian Maud Wall (formerly Vaughan), Railway Road, Hastings, Napier
Other details

No Form B 103 on File.

War service: Western Front

Detached to 3rd Canadian Tunnelling Company, 14 March 1917; rejoined unit from detachment, 10 April 1917.

Reported wounded, 18 May 1917 (gun shot wound, chest and thigh); admitted to 7th Stationary Hospital, Boulogne, 19 May 1917; listed as 'dangerously ill', 20 May 1917; removed from 'dangerously ill' list, 26 May 1917; discharged to Base Depot, 26 May 1917.

Admitted to 24th General Hospital, Etaples, 31 May 1917 (venereal disease: gonorrhea); transferred to 39th General Hospital, Etaples, 20 June 1917; to 51st General Hospital, 10 August 1917; discharged to Base Depot, Etaples, 25 August 1917.

Killed in action, Belgium, 12 October 1917.

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNominal Roll Vol. 2: Roll 38, p. 36
Archives New Zealand (Wellington), Agency AABK, Series 18805, File 22016440