Military History

Embarked Fremantle per HMAT A54 ‘Runic’ 29.1.1916.
Roll Rank Private.
Roll Unit 13th Reinforcement, 16th Battalion.
Bingham disembarked at Alexandria and marched in to Zietoun 26.2.1916. He was taken on Strength with his Battalion at Serapeum 2.4.1916. The 16th Battalion was split with the reorganization of Australian Imperial Force Battalions in 1916. Bingham was transferred to the 48th Battalion 2.4.1916. After several months of training he joined the British Expeditionary Force and embarked from Alexandria for France 2.6.1916. He disembarked with his Battalion unit at Marseilles 9.6.1916. The 48th Battalion fought at Pozieres in the trenches. Bingham was admitted sick to hospital 2.8.1916, 3.8.1916, 31.8.1916, 4.8.1916. He embarked per Hospital Ship ‘Jan Brydl’ for England and was admitted to the Northland Hospital, Gosforth, Newcastle. Bingham did not make a good recovery, as was deemed unfit for active service and listed for early return to Australia with disability and rheumatism.
Embarked Portland, UK for Australia per ‘Ajana’ 17.1.1916.
Returned/Disembarked Fremantle 18.12.1916.
Discharged 19.3.1917.
Final Rank Private, 51st Battalion, Australian Imperial Force.
Medical Condition Invalided, Disability & Rheumatism.
Awards and Medals British War Medal, Victory Medal.
Notes He had two brothers Ernest and Jack, both of whom served in WW1. He enlisted with his brother Ernest Bingham who was later killed In Action. Stephen died in 1945. His home 'Redcliffe Grove' is no longer standing.

Photo Stephen Bingham. Western Mail 13.10.1916
           HMAT 'Runic'. Donor R. Teague. Photograph source AWM P00707.027
           Ruined gardens at Pozieres 1916. Official British War photograph, photograph source AWM EZ0097

Information Source
AWM P00707.027. HMAT 'Runic'. Donor R. Teague. Photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
AWM EZ0097. Ruined gardens at Pozieres 1916. Official British War photograph, photograph sourced from the Pictorial Collection of the Australian War Memorial
Australian War Memorial Embarkation Roll- Stephen Bingham
Guildford Primary School Honour Roll
Guildford War Memorial
NAA: B2455, Bingham S 4254
St Matthew’s Honour Roll
Western Mail
Wise, H. and Co. Western Australian Post Office Directories. SLWA

‘Redcliffe Grove’, 21 Great Eastern Highway, Redcliffe, WA.

 

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