KINGSNORTH - Kent Fallen

BINGHAM F.J
Private G/4710 Frank John BINGHAM. 8 th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment). Died
5 th January 1917 aged 27 years. Born Ashford. Enlisted Canterbury. Resided Faversham.
Youngest son of Mr George Bingham of Faversham, Kent late of Boughton. Grandson of Mr
Richard Bingham of Rose Cottage, Sticketts Lane, Kingsnorth, Ashford, Kent. Husband of R
Abbott (formerly Bingham) of White Hill, Selling, Faversham, Kent. Buried in the Philosophe
British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, France. Grave reference II.G.6.
This man is recorded wrongly by the CWGC as being named E.J Bingham.
Frank enlisted in the Army in November 1914 shortly after the outbreak of war. At the time he
enlisted he was employed at Davington Court in Faversham. He went to France with his battalion
in August 1915. Frank was badly wounded in the leg during the Battle of Loos in September
1915. He returned to France in May 1916 and was killed the following January. He left a widow
and one child.
The Ashford Absentee Voters List for 1918 gives –
Houghton Cottage, Kingsnorth
Private 9740 Ernest BINGHAM. 1 st Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment).
Gunner William BINGHAM. 109 Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (R.G.A).
The cemetery was started in August 1915. In 1916 it was taken over by the 16th (Irish) Division,
who held the Loos Salient at the time, and many of their dead were brought back to the cemetery
from the front line. Succeeding divisions used the cemetery until October 1918, and men of the
same Division, and often the same battalion, were buried side by side. After the Armistice, many
isolated graves from the Loos battlefield were brought into the cemetery, including those of 41
men of the 9th Black Watch. There are now 1,996 Commonwealth burials of the First World War
in the cemetery, 277 of them unidentified. The cemetery was designed by Sir Herbert Baker.
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