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Individual Record
Inscription
Also of Richard their son
Killed in action in France Aug 25 1918
Aged 37 years
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St John the Baptist Ruardean
Gloucestershire
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Richard
Vaughan
1881
Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire
21th August 1918
Killed in action probably by machine gun fire in a battalion attack on the German trenches at Ecoust-St-Mein in thick mist - the tanks got lost, the wire wasn't cut and they were cut down by machine gun fire when they attempted to get through the German wire
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Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France
First World War
Private
1st Battalion Welsh Guards
Other Records from the same place:
Second World War
Ralph Thomas Roy
Watkins
108th Regiment Royal Armoured Corps (1st/5th Battalion The Lancashire Fusiliers)
