CAPTAIN PHILIP ERNEST VINEY
LEICESTERSHIRE REGIMENT
1ST JANUARY 1970 AGE 26
BURIED: BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY NORD, FRANCE
The first line of Captain Viney's epitaph comes from 'In Transitu S. Malachi' by St Bernard of Clairvaux (1090-1153): Mors januae vitae: Death the gate of life, an affirmation of the resurrection of the dead. The second line comes from 1 John 4:7. - He that loveth not knoweth not God for God is love.
Philip Viney was a regular soldier; he had gone to Sandhurst after Aldenham School and was commissioned into the Leicestershire Regiment in 1906. He went with his regiment to France in September 1914 and was mortally wounded by a shell on 14 December. He died three days later.