Date of Birth
1887
College
Borough Road College
Job(s)
Teacher at Borough Road College
Service number
Unknown
WW1 rank
Second Lieutenant
Queen’s Own, Royal West Kent Regiment, 8th Battalion
Date of death
29 June 1916
Buried/memorial
Dranoutre Military Cemetery (Grave/Memorial reference: I. F. 19.); King’s College London Chapel
Biography
Second Lieutenant Lionel Frank Vinicombe was born in Constantinople, the youngest son of Charle and Louisa Vinicombe. He attended George Watson’s College in Edinburgh and attended King’s College London in 1907 in the “faculty of science”. At the outbreak of war he was a teacher at Borough Road College and enlisted in 1914. Vinicombe served with the Queen’s Own, Royal West Kent Regiment, and died on 29 June 1916 whilst out with a working party.
Sources
Entry on p.88 [Roll of Honour page], Mentioned on Framed Borough Road College Roll of Honour, Commonwealth War Graves Commission, King’s College London War Memorial (http://www.kingscollections.org/warmemorials/kings-college/memorials/vinicombe-lionel-frank)