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    1. [INDIA] Apcar Leslie DE VINE
    2. Noel Clark
    3. There are 56 pages of Apcar Leslie DE VINE's service papers with the AIF and they can be found by going here: http://www.naa.gov.au/ and then Name Search and entering just the surname 'De Vine' and choosing World War 1 as the Category of Records. He states that he was born in St. Helier, Jersey, and from the age given this was about 1886/1887. In the papers is a copy of his marriage certificate, where he names his father as Carlos Leslie De Vine, Doctor of Medicine. When he enlisted in 1914 he gave his mother's address as 78 Mallinson Road, Clapham Common, Surrey. If you put "Apcar Leslie De Vine" or "Carlos Leslie De Vine" into Google you will get various hits. Among them you will find his baptism in Jersey. His mother may have been Sophia John, whom Carlos married in 1889 in London. Noel

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