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Vaughan, John Daniel (2454)

Place of Birth: South Melbourne, VIC

Age: 29 years 9 months

Enlistment Details: Monday, 25 January 1915 – Melbourne, VIC

Service Number: 2454            view online service record

Address:
96 Evans Street
Port Melbourne, VIC

Next of Kin:
Annie Maud Vaughan (wife)
96 Evans Street
Port Melbourne, VIC

Embarkation Details:
Date: Friday, 16 July 1915
Ship: HMAT Demosthenes A64
Port: Melbourne, VIC
Unit: 7th Infantry Battalion – 7th Reinforcements

Fate:
RTA: Tuesday, 13 February 1917
Discharged: Friday, 29 June 1917

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  • Brian Membrey
    Posted April 30, 2019 10.43 am 0Likes

    John Daniel Vaughan was discharged as medically unfit on 29 June, 1917 due to functional aphoria (failure of exercise to produce an increase in physical energy or muscle tone). Archives show pensions being granted to his wife, daughter Eavies and himself at 50 Garton Street, Port Melbourne. Vaughan died in the Caulfield Military Hospital on 3 April, 1926 and was interred in Coburg Cemetery

    DEATHS VAUGHAN. — On the 3rd April, at Repatriation Hospital, Caulfleld, John Daniel, beloved aon of the late John and Eavies, of Clarendon-street, South Melbourne, lovcd brother of Will and Albert, loved uncle of Bertha, Florence and Billy. Mother, father and son united. Duty nobly done.

    (The Argus, 10 April, 1926; an identical notice appeared in the Record (South Melbourne), 17 April)

    FUNERAL NOTICES – VAUGHAN. The friends of the late JOHN DANIEL VAUGHAN (late A.I.F) of ‘Kilsyth’, Oxford-road, Croydon are respectfully informed that that his remains will be interred in the Coburg Cemetery. The funeral is appointed to leave from the residence of his father-in-law Mr. J. Ryan, 96 Evans-street, Port Melbourne THIS DAY (Monday), the 5thh April, at 9 a.m. (Motors)

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