Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Second Lieutenant T. L. Vaughan, Welsh Regiment, later South Wales Borderers and Royal Sussex Regiment

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 5 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1901, South Africa 1902 (7586 Pte T. L. Vaughan. Vol. Coy Welsh Regt); 1914-15 Star (14542 C.Q.M.Sjt. T. L. Vaughan. S. Wales Bord.); British War and Victory Medals (2. Lieut T. L. Vaughan.) edge bruising to QSA, nearly very fine (4) £160-£200

Thomas Lewis Vaughan served during the Boer War with the 2nd Volunteer Battalion of the Welsh Regiment, attached to the English Composite Cyclist’s Company. During the Great War he served on the Western Front from 25 September 1915, as a Company Quarter Master Sergeant with the 6th Battalion, South Wales Borderers before receiving a commission into the 1st Battalion Royal Sussex Regiment on 26 September 1917. He then saw further service with the Welsh Regiment. His Great War medals were sent to him at Upper Skewen Post Office, Neath, Glamorgan.