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Lot Essay
During World War II, Vaughan registered as a conscientious objector and faced a tribunal in August 1940 where he was told he would have to serve in the Royal Army Medical Corps, however, due to an error, he ended up serving in the Pioneer Corps. Although it was difficult for Vaughan to work in oils during this period he was able to carry equipment to produce small-scale works on paper in inks, watercolour and gouache (see M. Yorke, op. cit., p. 260).
Vaughan spent the summer of 1941 at Codford and he enjoyed the companionship with the men he served with. He wrote in January 1942, 'Each part of the hut has a different atmosphere created by the occupant around whom the others cluster. Outside the snow is crisp and clean beneath a sky bright with stars. Inside a spontaneous ever-changing ebb and flow of life laps around the warm centre of the stove; toast making, water boiling, coffee brewing, boot cleaning, dubbin melting, clothes drying. All our hopes and anxieties are momentarily forgotten - the forces that brought us here, the reasons that will draw us apart' (see Journal & Drawings 1939 - 1965, London, 1966, p. 50).
Vaughan spent the summer of 1941 at Codford and he enjoyed the companionship with the men he served with. He wrote in January 1942, 'Each part of the hut has a different atmosphere created by the occupant around whom the others cluster. Outside the snow is crisp and clean beneath a sky bright with stars. Inside a spontaneous ever-changing ebb and flow of life laps around the warm centre of the stove; toast making, water boiling, coffee brewing, boot cleaning, dubbin melting, clothes drying. All our hopes and anxieties are momentarily forgotten - the forces that brought us here, the reasons that will draw us apart' (see Journal & Drawings 1939 - 1965, London, 1966, p. 50).