Louis Vaughan

Louis Vaughan was educated at Uppingham School and the Royal Military College at Sandhurst, entering the army in 1895.

[2][3] Vaughan entered the Indian Army in December 1896 and was made captain in 1904, having served in the 78th Moplah Rifles.

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.

[2] Vaughan was on active service as a staff officer from 1914 to 1918, and was mentioned in despatches nine times throughout the war.

John Bourne, of the University of Birmingham's Centre for First World War Studies, who has researched the nicknames given to British Army generals in the First World War, attributes to this nickname a priestly meaning, rather than any patriarchal meaning.

Sir Douglas Haig with his army commanders and their chiefs of staff, November 1918. Front row, left to right: Sir Herbert Plumer , Sir Douglas Haig, Sir Henry Rawlinson . Middle row, left to right: Sir Julian Byng , Sir William Birdwood , Sir Henry Horne . Back row, left to right: Sir Herbert Lawrence , Sir Charles Kavanagh , Brudenell White , Percy, Louis Vaughan, Archibald Montgomery-Massingberd , Hastings Anderson .