VINES War Dead
In the index of war dead
kept by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission there are the names of 42
Vines who died as the consequences of war.
http://www.cwgc.org/cwgcinternet/search.aspx
Many of these died in action
in the terrible battles of the Great War 1914-1918. Four are recorded on
the honour board in St Michael and All Angels church at Brinkworth, Wilts
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Albert E W Vines 3-2-1920 from
Brinkworth
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Ernest Vines
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Frank Vines 28-3-1918 from Weekes
Farm Brinkworth
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Sidney Vines 31-1-1916
Many of the other 42 were from
other parts of England.
Some died at or under the
sea, memorialised at Portsmouth: Robert Stanley Vines a descendant of Peter
Vines (born 1724) son of Benjamin Vines of Vines Farm Grittenham. He perished
with the crew of the submarine Tigris in the Mediterranean Sea 10th March
1943.
Another descendant of Peter1724
Vines:
"Reginald Kenneth
Vines who died 20 January 1944 in Athens. Ken was wounded in Leros
Is. in the Dodecanese Islands Nov 1943 and died in Athens as a Prisoner
of War and is buried in Phaleron War Cemetery, Athens. He served with the
1st Btn. King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster). Ken was the eldest
son of Reginald Vines of Newbridge, Monmouthshire, and was the 4x great
grandson of Peter (b.1724)." Thanks to Lynn Davies,
niece of Reginald Kenneth Vines.
For an account of the action on Leros
see
http://leros2002.bravepages.com/leros_war2.html
Some in the air
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P J Vines 30-5-1918
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F H L Vines 6-3-1943
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J H Vines 26-4-1945
Two, a man and a women, were
civilians. Bomb victims?
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R T Vines aged 77
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D W Vines aged 48 at Bath.
Thirteen Vines were enlisted
in the Canadian Expeditionary Forces during the Great War of 1914-1918.
Three of these were sons of Ella Vines of Listowel, Ontario and descendants
of Charles1722 Vines of Grittenham, Wilts. Frank,
aged 21, did not return, died 30th May 1918. He is buried at Comely
Bank, Edinburgh, Scotland.
The others were born in England
except one from Queensland Aust. and all had next of kin in England, mostly
Gloustershire.
An Australian, John Thomas
Vines, a Queenslander from Nanango, succumbed to sickness in a state of
starvation and deprivation of proper care while a prisoner of war of the
Japanese, working on the Thai-Burma railway, September 1943. He was interred
in the THANBYUZAYAT
WAR CEMETERY in
Burma.
AMERICAN RECORDS
NAME
Date
Memorial or Grave
VINES AREL
April 23, 1945
Manila, Phillipines
VINES CARL E
Missouri June 6,
1944
Normandy, France
VINES CHARLIE JR Alabama
December 16, 1944 Manila, Phillipines
VINES CLARENCE W Illinois
April 8, 1945
Netherlands
VINES JOHN E
California
September 23, 1944 Manila, Phillipines
VINES THEODORE E Arkansas
October 22, 1943
Carthage Tunisia N. Africa
VINES WILLIE H
W Virginia January
7, 1945
Epinal, France
LEST WE FORGET
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