The D'Arcy Archive
1895–1949

Vivian Claude Sneyd

Salesman (listed as occupation on a death notice)

Newspaper halftone portrait of a young man in a peaked military cap and tunic, head and shoulders, looking slightly to his left.
The Brisbane Courier, Saturday 18 January 1919, page 5, under “On Honour's Roll”. Captioned in the paper: “Lance-corporal Vivian Sneyd, 3rd Field Ambulance, A.I.F., M.M. and Bar.” As far as this archive knows, the only photograph of anyone in his generation of the family.
Vivian Claude Sneyd 1895–1949 in the tree
written in a record this archive has read from the family tree, untested

2 of the 8 relationships shown here are written in a record this archive has read; the other 6 come from the family tree and have not been tested. How claims are labelled →

The record

Born 18 DEC 1895 Windsor, Brisbane
Died 10 FEB 1949 Brisbane, Queensland
Cause Natural / Old Age
Buried Mount Thompson Crematorium, Brisbane, Queensland (Cremated)
Trade Salesman (listed as occupation on a death notice)

registered The died date above is confirmed by the Queensland civil register — registration 1949/B/20695, naming his parents as Arthur and Martha Blum. Sources →

Corrected against the family tree. The rows above carry this archive's finding. What the exported tree says is printed here, because hiding it would conceal the one thing this site is for.
  • bornPlace: Windsor, Brisbane — the tree says Rockhampton. His own Service and Casualty Form gives Windsor, Brisbane. Set out in full →

Counted here with the Sneyd family · that family →

Family

Parents

Arthur William Hartley Sneyd · Martha Blum

Married

Florence Elsie Hickman Knight · 1924 at Brisbane, Queensland

Brothers and sisters

Ivy Miriam Sneyd (1891–1979) · Arthur Hartley Sneyd (1893–1916) · Kenneth Seigfried Sneyd (1898–1935) · Amy Nesta Sneyd (1900–1941) · Beryl Marie Sneyd (1904–1905) · Julia Hetty Sneyd (b. 1892)

Where this comes from

2 of the relationships drawn above are written in a record this archive has read. Qld death reg. 1949/B/20695.

Every entry naming Vivian Claude Sneyd in the register →

Everywhere Vivian appears in this archive

Every page of this site that writes about Vivian Claude Sneyd, gathered automatically — 9 in total. This is the same evidence as the rest of the archive, brought together in one place.

The Search for Arthur

…mething the archive had entirely missed. Arthur was not the only Sneyd brother in France. Vivian Claude Sneyd (1895–1949), the next boy down, served with the 3rd Field Ambulance and came home with the Military Medal and Bar — decorated twi…

Gallery

…overnment wrote down. The documents → photograph · Printed 18 January 1919 Lance-Corporal Vivian Claude Sneyd, M.M. and Bar A newspaper halftone, head and shoulders, in a peaked cap and tunic. Captioned in the paper: “Lance-corporal Vivian…

What This Archive Got Wrong

…t William Sneyd died between 1919 and 1921 16 February 1920, registration 1920/B/31382. → Vivian Claude Sneyd was born at Rockhampton Windsor, Brisbane, on his own attestation paper. → Why this page exists Because the alternative is worse.…

Open Questions

…et Farm . The 9th Battalion war diary for 20–22 August would settle it. answered same day Vivian Claude Sneyd, MM and Bar, 3rd Australian Field Ambulance (1895–1949) — Ivy's other brother. The archive did not know he had served at all. Fou…

What Has Been Read

…raudulent-preference action against the bank. Arthur Sneyd's memorial notices and “Ruby”. Vivian Claude Sneyd at Gallipoli. → Queensland State Archives — ArchivesSearch found something 9 Sep 2026 Searched: “Sneyd” and “D'Arcy” across every…

Sources

…of death, and the Kit Store inventory of his effects. What it says → The dossier of L/Cpl Vivian Claude Sneyd, 1696 (item 8087524, 21 pages) has been partly read — the Service and Casualty Form and the Statement of Service. A third, Pte Er…

The Great War

…ne CWGC page to become documented. Queued → Lance-Corporal, 1696 · Military Medal and Bar Vivian Claude Sneyd, 3rd Australian Field Ambulance Ivy's other brother, two years younger than Arthur — and until 9 September 2026 this archive had…

The Sneyds

…hree young men to that war and the archive knew about one of them until 9 September 2026. Vivian Claude Sneyd (1895–1949), Arthur's younger brother, enlisted two months before him and served as a stretcher-bearer with the 3rd Australian Fi…

Timeline

…y enlist → 1916 Arthur Hartley Sneyd killed at Pozières. Six men give six accounts → 1917 Vivian Claude Sneyd wins a Bar to the Military Medal at Westhoek → 1936 Lindesay Atkinson D'Arcy dies suddenly at 44, of Botany Street, Clayfield → 2…

Written about here

Pages of this archive where Vivian is part of the argument, not just a name in a list.

What is written about Vivian

Carried across from the family tree, with its markup stripped. Family testimony, not an independent record — valuable, and labelled.

Photo of Vivian Claude Sneyd in a group photo of employees of Brisbane firm Hoffnung & Co, who served in WW1. https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/C1262223
Funeral details and occupation at death: https://vwma.org.au/explore/people/312473
Web content link: https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/rendition/nla.news-article20134010.txt
Reason for receiving bravery medal in WW1: https://s3-ap-southeast-2.amazonaws.com/awm-media/collection/RCDIG1068300/document/5498279.PDF?fbclid=IwAR2cqyc7VzdHhfG2QUq2ex3-pf0yR0ASkd6iIbADhXxKNTS9exVnvLabq4A

Sources attached in the tree

  • Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) — https://www.myheritage.com/person-1000110_OYYV67TWPUC62QRYCZXLXGYC6DRXY2Y_OYYV67TWPUC62QRYCZXLXGYC6DRXY2Y/vivian-claude-sneyd
  • Defranceski Family Site (23andMe) — https://www.myheritage.com/person-2002782_OYYV6GZOR6YBKZOC2KSTVC3SUN2PBZA_OYYV6GZOR6YBKZOC2KSTVC3SUN2PBZA/vivian-claude-sneyd

These are the citations the family tree carries. Where this archive has checked one against the original, it says so on the relevant page. Method →

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