Charles Edward VINES

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VINES, Charles Edward

Service Number:	353
Enlisted:	Not yet discovered
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen
Born:	St Leonards, New South Wales, Australia, 1880
Home Town:	Kin Kin, Sunshine Coast, Queensland
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Not yet discovered
Died:	31 May 1963, cause of death not yet discovered, place of death not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Pomona Cemetery, Qld Plot: Monumental, Row O, #284
Memorials:

Boer War Service

1 Oct 1899:	Involvement Private, 353, Queensland Imperial Bushmen
18 May 1900:	Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 353, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 475 notes 4th QIB embarked 18 May 1900 aboard Manchester Port arriving Beira 14 Jun 1900.
10 Aug 1901:	Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Private, 353, 4th Queensland Imperial Bushmen, AWM Boer War Unit Details, Murray p. 477 notes 4th QIB embarked 5 Jul 1901 aboard Britannic returning to Australia arriving Brisbane 5 Aug 1901, disbanded 10 Aug 1901.

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Biography contributed by Claude McKelvey

Charles Edward Vines was born in 1880 at St Leonards, New South Wales, a son to Peter Joseph Vines and Mary Ellen Vines (nee Carmody).

He was noted as one of the early pioneers in the Kin Kin district of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland. He married twice, first to Mary Catherine McKeown on 1 Feb 1913 (d. 1918) while living at Kin Kin and had 3 children, second to Margaret Theresa Degney on 17 Jul 1926.

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