Service Details
Name:
 VINEY
Given Name:
 TAUNTON ELLIOTT
Initials:
 T E
Rank:
 Flight Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 Royal Naval Air Service
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Unit:
 5th Wing
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Former Regiment:
 formerly Prince Alfred Guards
Date of Death:
 1916-05-21
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Date of Birth:
 1891-11-14
Age:
 24
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, while flying over the enemy's lines in Flanders
Decorations:
 D S O
Citations:
 LG Sup 1 Jan 1916 pg 88/89 - "For his services on the 28th November, 1915, when, accompanied by le Lieutenant en second de Sincay as observer, he destroyed a German submarine off the Belgian coast by bombs dropped from an aeroplane."
Additional
Information:
Younger son of Arthur Elliott Viney and Edith Henrietta Viney, c/o. A. C. Jamieson, Esq., of "Bratton," Second Avenue, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. Born Saffron Walden, Essex, England. Native of Johannesburg, South Africa. Attended Jeppe High School for Boys. On Jeppe High School for Boys Roll of Honour. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918.
Commemoration
Country:
 Belgium
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Locality:
 Oostende, West-Vlaanderen
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Cemetery:
 OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 B. 24.

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