VESSEY, Victor Viney

Victor was born 1883 in Ryde to George John & Fanny (nee DYER) VESSEY who were living at 12 William Street in Ryde around the time of Victor’s death. The family had previously lived at 56 High Street in Carisbrooke.

Victor was a regular soldier having served in 1911 with the 44th Battery Royal Field Artillery in Bellary, India. However, after the outbreak of war, Victor was deployed to France on the 11th of September 1914. Victor Died of Wounds, during the Battle of Basse, on the 29th of January 1915 & is buried in the Cite Bonjean Cemetery beneath a Commission Headstone bearing the Family Inscription “THOUGH DEAD YET LIVETH IN OUR HEARTS FROM MOTHER, DAD, BRO., SIS.” Chosen by his mother. Victor rests alongside 2,131 of his First World War comrades.

Victor is also remembered on the County, Carisbrooke & Ryde War Memorials. His brother Percy Charles also fell in The Great War.