Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

24/01/1916

Place of Enlistment

Wagga Wagga NSW

Gender

Male

Date of Birth

28/02/1892

Place of Birth

Woodfield, Sutton NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Wagga Wagga NSW

Occupation

Schoolteacher

Next of Kin

Son of Thomas Bingley and Victoria (nee Rowley) Bingley of 'Woodfield', Amungula, NSW. Brother of Harold and Ewen Bingley who also served in World War 1.

Burial Place

France 833 Heilly Station Cemetery Mericourt-L'Abbe

Service Number

1626

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

55 Battalion AIF

Died of wounds at Flers on the Somme, France, 2 November 1916 aged 24 years

AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 160, Canberra ACT
Queanbeyan District Methodist Church Honor Roll
St. John the Baptist's Church, Canberra, Roll of Honour, in Frederick W. Robinson, Canberra's First Hundred Years, Sydney, W.C. Penfold, p. 63 (where Bingley is erroneously listed as 'Bingley, Private R.')
Large stone tablet on outside of northern wall of St. John's Church, Reid ACT (where he is listed as Bingley, C.S.)
World War 1 Memorial, corner of Lowe St and Farrer Place, Queanbeyan NSW
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Roll of Honor Queanbeyan Public School, Isabella Street, Queanbeyan NSW
Memorial Gates, Sutton Public School, Sutton
Large stone tablet on outside of northern wall of St. John's Church, Reid ACT

The only evidence of Bingley's connection with Canberra is the St. John's Church Roll of Honour and that is because the Amungula area where Bingley is from was, at the time, part of the parish of St. John's. He was teaching near Wagga Wagga when he joined the Kangaroos route march to Goulburn to enlist. He joined his battalion in the front line near Flers in September 1916 and was shot in the chest on 31 October, dying of his wounds three days later. The 55th Battalion was holding the line opposite The Maze at the time. Bingley was a contributor to the Queanbeyan Leader using the nom-de-plume of 'Gundy'.

Private Bingley was the uncle of Private John Reginald Rowley (MM) who died of wounds at Peronne, France, on 2 September 1918.

Description - height 5 feet 9 inches, weight 140 pounds, chest 35-37 inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, brown hair, Methodist.

St. John the Baptist's Church, Canberra, Roll of Honour, in Frederick W. Robinson, Canberra's First Hundred Years, Sydney, W.C. Penfold, (p.63 where Bingley is erroneously listed as 'Bingley, Private R.').
AWM Roll of Honour Database
AWM Roll of Honour Circular
First World war Nominal Roll
First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
Peter Procter, Biographical Register of Canberra and Queanbeyan, Canberra, Heraldry and Genealogy Society of Canberra, 2001, (p.14)
Rex Cross and Bert Sheedy, Queanbeyan Pioneers - First Study, Queanbeyan Books and Prints, 1983, (p.1)
Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
Queanbeyan Age - 4 April 1916, 17 November 1916, 21 November 1916, 2 November 1917
Queanbeyan/ Canberra Advocate - 16 November 1916
Our Queanbeyan 'Boys', Howard & Shearsby, Yass (postcard)
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)