Vine Family originating in Dorset
Vine Family originating in DorsetUpdated May 5, 2007 | |
| Robert (Bob) John Vine 11 Ngaio Crescent Lower Hutt,Wellington 6009 64 4 9711192 Fax: 64 4 9716192 | This research originated with my quest to find more about my Grandfather, Sydney John Vine, MM , born Upper Brooke, nr Kingsomborne, Stockbridge, 7 November 1887. Sydney emigrated to New Zealand in 1914, returned to England as a Private in the 1st New Zealand Expeditionary Force via Egypt, Gallipoli and Malta to marry Winifride Ann Edwards before rejoining the New Zealand Divisional Artillery during the Battle of the Somme. Whilst Sydney amazingly survived the Great War he died soon after its conclusion and being repatriated with his family to New Zealand. He was taken in 1922 at the tail-end of the Influenza Epidemic as a result of weakened lungs sustained on the Front in France, "Death due to War Service". This Family Tree is as much a tribute to this man I never got to meet, as it is a voyage of discovery of, in New Zealand terms, my Whakapapa. There is still much to be discovered. |
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