250051 Mjr. John Jacob-Vaughan British Army 2nd Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry from: Barnstaple, Devon My Uncle John Jacob Vaughan, was the Medical Officer with 2nd Battalion, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Pegasus Bridge (portrayed by an actor in the film The Longest Day). He the first Medical Officer into Auschwitz. Later he served in Burma.
I was told a story about two Burmese Gurkhas who were detailed to despatch Japanese soldiers guarding a river. They disappeared, you could only see the Japanese heads above the scrub. They never moved. When the Gurkhas returned one was asked why the Japs hadn't been despatched, the Gurkha smiled pointed to their kukris, and passed their hands across the throat. Sure enough on inspection both Japs were as dead as a dodo. They never moved.
He went on to become a flying doctor, a doctor on a film set in Hollywood. Quite a character. Now deceased, much missed.
John was a great photographer and had a wonderful, if not a bit macabre, collection of photos concerning Auschwitz prisoners.
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