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1890 Jun 11. Born London, St Giles Middlesex Genealogy son of Louis Marie Charles Fradin de Belabre (d 1944) & Janetta Alexandra West (d 1903). The marriage produced 2 girls in addition to this one son.
1890 Sep 17 Baptised
1891 census I cannot find them. The family are abroad, given the birth places of the children at this time
1893Aug 26 His sister Daphne (see pension card below) born Cape Town, South Africa
1896 Jul 23 A sister Marguerite born Cape Town, South Africa
1901 census I cannot find them. The family are abroad, given the birth places of the children at this time
1903 His mother dies in Rhodes and a few years later his father remarries. And in 1911 census his father is living at 29 Westbourne Gardens Folkestone, with new wife and 2 daughters.
1907 Jul 1 A Half Sister born Thornton Hall, Scotland
1911 census is a 20 year old farmer and head of household. Living at Scotsford Hill, Mayfield, Sussex. His nationality is "French - naturalised British Subject"
1912 Nov 7. Departs for Melbourne on SS Desmosthenes. Eadys are on the ship too. He is down as "farm labourer"
1912 Dec 15 Arrives Australia
1913 From index of missing people in Victoria Police files. "Belabre, Vivyan M de." French Consul in Melbourne in 1913 forwards letter from French Consul Belabe in Newcastle on Tyne England, regarding his son Vivyan, who left Sussex with Thomas Eady family for Australia, without saying goodbye. He is now apparently living on a farm in Victoria with the family, and his father wants details. Found. 15 pages, List 14. (I cannot access these files)
1915 Mar 25 Arrives back in UK on SS Osterley. A 25year old farmer from Melbourne.
1915 Apr 10. Enlists at Bovington Camp. His permanent address is given as Abingdon, Moorside, Fenham, Newcastle-on-Tyne
1915 Apr 28 . The undermentioned temporary Second Lieutenants to be temporary Second Lieutenants. Dated 31st October, 1915, but with seniority from the dates specified against their names: From The Northumberland Fusiliers — Vivyan M. de Balabre. 28th April, 1915.
1917 May 29 . Temp. 2nd Lt. V. M. de Balabre, North'd Fus., attd. A. Cyclist Corps, and to be transfd. to Gen. List.
1917 Jul 1 Promoted Lt (Gazette 9 Jan 1917)
1917 Aug 15 Engagement announced - he dos not seem to have married her
1917 Oct 25. Wounded in France
1918 Feb 20. To 21 Squadron. He gives address as Beaufort Mansions, Chelsea on RAF record
1918 May 28. To UK, SW area
1918 Jun 7. To 14 TDS
1918 Jul 29. Tried by courtmartial and sentenced to loss of seniority
1918 Oct 4. Tried by General Court Martial.This is not on his file.
1918 Nov 12. Lt. V. M., de Balabre is dismissed the service by sentence of a General Court-Martial.
1919 He took part in the expedition to Archangel. His mother is reported to have said His conduct led to his being made a Knight of St. George, to be decorated with the Croix de Guerre Belgian French and English. There is no record of his having received any of these awards.
Posted to Ireland in Special Signal Company of Royal Signals. Which certainly shows
THE SIGNAL SERVICE IN THE EUROPEAN WAR OF 1914 to 1918. (FRANCE). BY R. E. PRIESTLEY, M.C, B.A. (Late Major, R.E.). " From a single intercepting station in 1914, " Intelligence " wireless, technically controlled and administered by the Signal Service, but working under the direct orders of the Intelligence branch of the General Staff, had grown by 1917, until it was sufficiently important to warrant the creation of a special branch of the Intelligence Staff at G.H.Q. to direct its activities and co-ordinate the results obtained. Originally intended for the interception of enemy messages and calls, it developed by the introduction of the direction-finding station in 1914 into a means of locating enemy wireless stations. By plotting on a map the position of these stations, the headquarters of enemy formations could be identified.
1921 Apr 22. Died Dublin. On inquest list as accidental death and CWGC grave. (ref Vivian Lys Belabre, Apr/Jun 1921 vol 2, p 400 Dublin North)
His sister is Daphne J deF Belabre
1923 Jun 29. London Gazette publishes a list of the Names of Deceased Officers, Soldiers and Airmen whose Personal Estate is held for distribution amongst the Next-of-Kin or others entitled. Effects, Belabre, V. L., Sigmn., R.C. of Sigs £1-6-2d
1924 Jun 27. Again in London Gazette as nobody has claimed his "fortune"
1925 Jun 30. Again in London Gazette
1926 Jun 29. Again in Gazette
1929 Jun 28 Again in Gazette
1931 Apr 8 (sic) Probate granted to his father
