In Memory Of

VINEY, TAUNTON ELLIOTT

Service Details
Age:
 24
Date of Birth:
 1891-11-14
Rank:
 Flight Lieutenant
Unit:
 5th Wing
Regiment:
 Royal Naval Air Service
Former Regiment:
 formerly Prince Alfred Guards
Date of Death:
 1916-05-21
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, while flying over the enemy's lines in Flanders
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 B. 24.
Cemetery:
 OOSTENDE NEW COMMUNAL CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Oostende, West-Vlaanderen
Country:
 Belgium
Additional Information
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."
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.