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 H. Viney, C/o. A. C. Jamieson, Esq., of "Bratton," Second Avenue, Frinton-on-Sea, Essex. ref. South African Roll of Honour 1914-1918. Native of Johannesburg, South Africa. Attended Jeppe High School for Boys. On Jeppe High School for Boys Roll of Honour
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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