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Parents: - Frank Vaughan married Eliza Jane Carter on 21st September 1901 in Horsham, Sussex, England.  Frank (Jnr) was born 1910 in Coulsdon, Surrey, England, he had 3 older sisters, Alice, Gladys and Marjory.  In October 1911 Frank's father died. His mother Eliza Vaughan, in April 1913 at Coulsdon, Surrey, England, married William Ernest Peters. This union produced two more children William John and Elsie May Peters. Due to this remarriage Frank was also legally known as Frank Peters.

When he was 4 years old Frank and family arrived in Fremantle, Western Australia in May 1914 aboard the ‘Armadale’. The family settled in Wyalkatchem. It was here on the 15th December 1931, Frank's step father died at the Wyalkatchem District Hospital.

Frank married Bertha Gangell on Wednesday 27th November 1935 at St Barnabas' Church, Dowerin, Western Australia. The couple has a son Clive Douglas Vaughan born in 1937.

Frank Vaughan enlisted on 30th June 1940 at Northam, Western Australia after basic training he was assigned on 19th December 1940 to the  2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion ‘B’ Company Headquarters, No 8 Platoon as a cook. After the fall of Singapore Private Frank Vaughan became a prisoner of war and eventually being selected to work on the Burma end of Burma-Thai Railway, sailing from Singapore for south-west Burma. When the rail was completed towards the end of 1943, Frank along with the other Allied prisoners were evacuated south to Thailand to one of several large PoW camps.  Frank was evacuated from Khonkan Hospital Camp, and moved to Tamarkan.  He died at Tarmarkan Hospital Camp on 1st April 1944 from the effects of malaria and dysentery aged 32 years. He was burried in the camp's cemetery grave G3, at Tamarkan, Thailand. On the 24th January 1946 Private Frank Vaughan was reinterred at Kanchanaburi War Cemetery, Thailand. On April 21st, 1987 Frank's widow (Bertha Vaughan) visited his gravesite for the first time, 46 years after he left for war. 

Bertha Vaughan died on the  29th September 2002 at Mt Hawthorn, aged 90, and is buried at Karrakatta Cemetery. Clive Vaughan died on 3rd May 1967 aged 29 years at Morley and was laid to rest at Karrakatta near his mother. Private Frank Vaughan's mother Eliza Peters died on 18th June 1960 aged 79 years at Mosman Park and is also buried at Karrakatta.

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