Military History

Embarked from Fremantle per A 30 ‘Borda’ for Egypt 17.1.1916.
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit 8th Reinforcement, 28th Battalion, Australian Imperial Force.
Bingham disembarked at Suez with the 8th Reinforcement, 28th Battalion and marched in to No.7 Training Battalion at Zietoun 3.3.1916. With the reorganization of Battalions that occurred after the evacuation from Gallipoli, the 51st Battalion was created. Bingham was transferred to 51st Battalion at Tel-el-Kebir 3.3.1916. He was admitted to hospital in Abbassia with pain in his feet 23.4.1916 (Reported West Australian Newspaper 16.5.1916). He was struck off strength, as medically unfit for active service whilst at Serapeum 26.4.1916. Bingham was invalided to England and embarked from Alexandria per HS ‘Franconia’ for Plymouth (Reported in 169th Casualty List West Australian Newspaper 16.5.1916 p5). He as admitted to the Fargo Military Hospital, England 17.8.1916. Bingham was discharged to the 13th Training Battalion at Codford, Weymouth 13.5.1917 and listed for early return as an invalid.
Embarked for Australia per A24 ‘Benalla’ 25.8.1917.
Returned/Disembarked Fremantle 17.10.1917.
Discharged 9.11.1917.
Final Rank Private, 51st Infantry Battalion, Australian Imperial Force.
Medical Condition Invalided. Unfit for service, lumbago, vertigo, nervous disability (pre existing conditions).
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal
Notes The original home at 54 Helena Street is no longer standing.
Photo Bingham Sons.Western Mail 13.10.1916 p28
           Abassia Hospital, Cairo 1915. Photographer unknown, photograph source AWM C03543
           HMAT 'Borda'. Photographer Josiah Barnes, photograph source AWM PB0277

Information Source
AWM C03543.Abassia Hospital, Cairo 1915. Photographer unknown, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM PB0277. HMAT 'Borda'. Photographer Josiah Barnes, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial 
Australian War Memorial Embarkation Roll- John Bingham
Guildford Primary School Honour Roll
Guildford War Memorial
NAA: 2455, Bingham J 3482
St Matthew’s Honour Roll
West Australian Newspaper
Western Mail
Wise, H. and Co. Western Australian Post Office Directories. SLWA

54 Helena Street, Guildford, WA.

 

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