Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the only son of John Sladen Wing and Evelyn Beatrix Dundas Wing.
Vincent was educated at Hildersham House, Broadstairs and Rugby, and gained an exhibition at Clare College, Cambridge, which owing to the war, he was unable to take up. He attested under the Derby Scheme on the 11th May 1916, and the same day became a cadet in the University of London O.T.C. He was promoted to Lance Corporal in June 1916, and the following month Corporal, Sergeant and Company Sergeant Major. On the 21st November 1916, he was posted to “B” Reserve Brigade, Royal Horse Artillery at St. John’s Wood, and in February 1917, was sent for his firing course to Lark Hill, Salisbury Plain. He was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant Royal Field Artillery on the 27th March 1917, and on the 15th April was posted to the “B” instructional staff. On the 10th May 1917. he was ordered to France, and went to the 2nd/5th D.A.C. being afterwards posted to the 65th Howitzer Battery, Royal Field Artillery. This Battery was subsequently attached to the Portuguese Expeditionary Force. On the 10th August 1917, Colonel Hippolyto, the commander of the Portuguese artillery and his staff were inspecting the gun positions at Croix Barbie. The Germans found the range and shelled it. The first shell set fire to a barn, which was the men’s billet, killing and wounding several men. Lieutenant Wing who was off duty and ill in bed at the time, did not stop to dress, but ran into the barn where he helped to save the wounded, showing “great bravery and a total disregard for personal danger under heavy shell fire.” The Portuguese staff with the officers and men of the battery then moved to a detached section and when Lieutenant Wing joined them he was called up and congratulated by Colonel Hippolyto, who insisted upon his wearing his (the Colonel’s) cloak. Lieutenant Wing then helped to dress the wounded when a shell fell in the gun pit 30 yards away, and a splinter mortally wounded him. He only managed to say, “They’ve got me, Sir.” And never regained consciousness. He and five of the men killed in the same shelling were buried at La Gorgue Cemetery, Estairs, France. By Colonel Hippolyto’s special request lieutenant Wing was buried in the cloak which he had placed upon him. The Portuguese flag, with the Union Jack, was placed over him, and when Colonel, then General Hippolyto came to London at the time of the visit of the Portuguese Mission he personally presented the flag to Lieutenant Wing’s parents. A staff-major wrote: - “I want to tell you how tremendously highly we all thought of him. I don’t know when I met a better officer or a more promising young subaltern, and I know that was what they all thought of him in the Division.” His Major writes that he had “endeared himself by his manner and his excellent work not only to all the officers whom he had met out here, but also to the men of his section in the battery, with whom he was in close sympathy.” His Captain writes that “he showed great bravery in rescuing wounded men from a very tight corner and total disregard for personal danger.” Lieutenant Wing was a cousin of Major General F. V. Wing C.B., R.A., who was killed in action in October 1915, when commanding a Division.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Excellent information on these men's burial at La Gorgue. However there were seven casualties; Private J.W Stephenson RAMC, was attached to the 65th How battery at the time of his death, and was probably killed with 2/lt. Wing

Submitted by S. Binks, 2015