Name
Charles Albert Viney
Conflict
Second World War
Date of Death / Age
28/04/1943
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lance Corporal
6913527
Rifle Brigade
2nd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Massicault War Cemetery
IV. H. 10.
Tunisia
Headstone Inscription
PROUDLY WE REMEMBER HIM OUR DARLING BROTHER CHARLES. DORIS AND ELSIE
UK & Other Memorials
Hitchin Town Memorial, Hitchin Roll of Honour 1939 – 1945 (Book) St Mary’s Church, Hitchin
Biography
He was born in Middlesex and was resident in London at the time he joined the army though he was working for Messrs Geo. W. King, the engineers of Hitchin. By the outbreak of war he had served four years with the 2nd Battalion of the Rifle Brigade in India and was currently serving in Palestine. His Service Number was 6913527.
He joined the 8th Army in Egypt and was with General Wavell's advance through Libya. He was wounded in the retreat to the Egyptian border in April 1941 . He was in hospital in Cairo for four months but took part in the great Battle at El Alamein fighting with the 7th Armoured Corps. The advance took him through Libya and into the Tunisian Campaign and towards its close he was killed in action.
He was buried in Plot 4, Row H, Grave JO in the Massicault War Cemetery in Tunisia. The cemetery is 26 km southwest of Tunis. A private inscription on the headstone reads "Proudly we remember him our darling brother Charles. Doris and Elsie".
He was the son of Charles and Agnes Viney and he had two sisters, Mrs H. Woodham and Mrs P. Walker both of 70, Lancaster Ave, Hitchin.
Acknowledgments
David C Baines – ‘Hitchin’s Century of Sacrifice’, Herts Pictorial dated 18th May 1943
