Louis Vaughan

Who was Louis Vaughan?

Lieutenant-General Sir Louis Ridley Vaughan, KCB, KBE, CB, DSO, was a British army staff officer and First World War general. Before the war he served in the Indian Army. During the First World War, he served on the Western Front, and was chief of staff to General Sir Julian Byng, commander of the Third Army from May 1917 until the end of the war. After the war, he served in the Third Anglo-Afghan War of 1919, and then held several army positions in India until his retirement in 1928. He died in 1942 at the age of 67.