Louis Ridley Vaughan

Lieutenant-General Sir Louis Ridley Vaughan, KCB, KBE, DSO (7 August 1875 – 7 December 1942), was a British Indian Army staff officer and First World War general. 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.

Louis Ridley Vaughan was born on 7 August 1875. He was the second son of Cedric Vaughan, a Justice of the Peace in Millom, Cumberland, UK. Louis Vaughan was educated at Uppingham School and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, entering the army in 1895.

Vaughan entered the Indian Army in December 1896 and was made captain in 1904, having served in the 78th Moplah Rifles. He transferred to the 113th Infantry in July 1907 when the 78th Moplah Rifles were disbanded. He attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1908 to 1910, and served as a General Staff Officer (GSO) Grade 3, in India from 1910 to 1912. He served in the War Office from 1912 to 1914 (GSO 2nd Grade), and was promoted to Major in 1913, by then having transferred to the 7th Gurkha Rifles. Vaughan married Emilie Kate Desmond Deane on 16 April 1913.

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