Name
William Bingham
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/11/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Air Mechanic 2nd Class
191891
Royal Air Force
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WATFORD CEMETERY
J. 2. 738.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Watford memorials
Pre War
Son of Augustus Frederick and Mary Ann Jane (nee SAUNDERS or PAGE) BINGHAM; husband of Mary Ann Ellen (nee SILLWOOD) BINGHAM.
His parents married 15 June 1879 at St Mary’s, Battersea, London. Mary died 1926 in the Brentford, Middx, district aged 71; Augustus died 9 March 1945 in Hounslow, Middx, aged 85.
William was born 27 June 1890 in Chelsea, London, and married 9 April 1916 at All Saints, Fulham. He was buried 9 November. Mary remarried 1920 in the Watford district to Arthur H LAWTON, she died 26 December 1984 in Watford aged 92, and was buried 7 January 1985 in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
On the 1891 Census, aged 8 months he lived in Chelsea, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1901 Census, aged 10 he lived in Fulham, with his parents and one sibling. On the 1911 Census, an assistant in the [furniture removal] business aged 20, he still lived in Fulham, with his parents and one sibling.
Wartime Service
He enlisted 3 June 1918 for the Duration of the War: a steam engine fitter and driver aged 28, 5’1″ tall, C of E; his next-of-kin his wife of Fulham, London.
He died at Upwood Aerodrome, Ramsey, Cambs, of influenza and pneumonia, and appears to have no medals.
Buried in Watford
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild
