Name
Harry Hickman Binyon (*1)
14/12/1872
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/05/1915
40
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Trooper
844
Australian Light Horse
9th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARI BURNU CEMETERY, ANZAC
Row B, Grave 10.
Turkey (including Gallipoli)
Headstone Inscription
No Inscription on his Headstone.
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Grammar School Memorial, Watford, Roll of honour or book of remembrance Watford, Watford Grammar School Book of Remembrance, Oxhey Village Memorial, St Matthew’s Church Memorial, Oxhey, Not on the Bushey memorials(*2), Australian War Memorial Canberra
Pre War
Harry Hickman Binyon, born in Bushey on 14th December 1872, son of John Crouch Binyon an auctioneer and Emma Jane Crouch (nee Mayles). Baptised on 14th January 1873, in the Parish of Bushey, Herts. At the time his parents lived in Pinner Road, Bushey. He was the second of three children.
His parents married 9 April 1865 at St Sepulchre, Holborn, London. John died 12 May 1895 in Bushey, Herts, aged 66; Emma died 4 May 1916 in Oxhey, Herts, aged 72, and was buried 8 May in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford. There is a Death announcement for Emma in the Observer dated 6 May 1916.
1881 Census records Harry aged 8, at school, living with his parents, brother Arthur 9, and sister Lizzie 7, in Pinner Road, Bushey. They had two live-in Domestic Servents. He was educated at Watford Grammar School, attending from April 1884 to October 1887.
On the 1891 Census, a clerk aged 18, he still lived in Bushey, with his parents and two siblings.
His father John died in May 1895 and by 1901 Harry had taken over the auctioneering business, he was still living at home with his widowed mother and sister Lizzie at 91 Grover Road, Watford.
Still recorded as an auctioneer aged 31 he sailed from Southampton to Cape Town 31 December 1904 aboard Kinfauns Castle.
Wartime Service
He attested 27 November 1914 into the Australian Light Horse, with the Service No. 822. He was recorded as a farm labourer aged 35, 5’8″ tall, C of E, of Adelaide, South Australia; his next of kin was his sister Mrs L Lowe of Oaklands, South Australia, and/or his mother of Watford.
He joined the 9th Light Horse 4th Reinforcement 1 February 1915 and embarked from Adelaide 1 April 1915 aboard H.M.A.T. Port Lincoln. He arrived in Turkey 27 May 1915 and was taken on the strength.
He was entitled to the Victory, British War and 1914-15 Star medals, and was killed by a bullet in the body on Walkers Ridge, Anzac Cove and buried at Ari Burnu Cemetery, Anzac Cove, Turkey.
Harry is commemorated on the St Matthew’s Church memorial.
Additional Information
*1 Seems to appears at H Hickman on some memorials. *2 Recorded as born in Bushey, but perhaps this may be Oxhey? His Australian Service Record shows his effects went to his sister Lizzie as his mother Emma died in May 1916. Son of John Crouch Binyon and Emma Jane Binyon. Native of Watford, England. Associated with Adelaide, Australia. Recorded as BINYON W H and as HICKMAN H in the Borough Roll of Honour.
The published Watford Grammar School Book of Remembrance entry reads:
“BINYON, HARRY HICKMAN. School period: April, 1884, to October, 1887. Trooper, 9th Light Horse, Australian Contingent. Killed in action at the Dardanelles."
Acknowledgments
Stuart Osborne
Dianne Payne - www.busheyworldwarone.org.uk, Jonty Wild, www.awm.gov.au, Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
