Frederick Joseph BINGLEY

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BINGLEY, Frederick Joseph

Service Number:	3691
Enlisted:	15 August 1915
Last Rank:	Sergeant
Last Unit:	1st Infantry Battalion
Born:	Darlington New South Wales, Australia, July 1897
Home Town:	Darlington Point, Murrumbidgee Shire, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Junior Clerk
Died:	Killed in Action, Hesbecourt, France, 18 September 1918
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God"
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

15 Aug 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 3691, 4th Infantry Battalion
30 Dec 1915:	Involvement Private, 3691, 4th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '8' embarkation_place: Sydney embarkation_ship: HMAT Medic embarkation_ship_number: A7 public_note: ''
30 Dec 1915:	Embarked Private, 3691, 4th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Medic, Sydney
17 Mar 1916:	Transferred AIF WW1, Private, 1st Infantry Battalion
3 Nov 1916:	Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 1st Infantry Battalion
20 Jul 1918:	Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 1st Infantry Battalion
18 Sep 1918:	Involvement Sergeant, 3691, 1st Infantry Battalion, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 3691 awm_unit: 1 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1918-09-18

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

Frederick Joseph BINGLEY was the younger of two brothers who both worked for the NSWGR&T and were killed in action in WW I. The other brother was Claud William Bingley. Frederick was born on 16 November 1897 at Darlington in Sydney and he went to Darlington Public School. On 23 August 1912 he joined the NSWGR&T as a shop boy in the Signalling Branch at Redfern. On 1 January 1916 he was promoted to Office Boy and on 1 March 1916 he was promoted again, to the position of Foreman’s junior clerk. These promotions came after his release to join the AIF, which occurred on 28 August 1915.
Frederick enlisted in the AIF on 15 August 1915 with the rank of Private (Service Number 3691) and he was posted to the 12th Reinforcements to the 4th Infantry Battalion. He nominated his father, William Edward Bingley of Darlington, NSW, as his next of kin and he gave his previous occupation as junior clerk. He also stated he had had six and a half years previous involvement in the Army Cadets and the Militia.
Frederick embarked on HMAT A7 ‘Medic’ at Sydney for Egypt on 30 December 1915. After reaching Egypt he was posted to the 1st Infantry Battalion at Serapeum on 17 March 1916 and five days later he embarked at Alexandria for France. From his arrival in France on 28 March 1916 until 11 July 1917 he was on duty with the 1st Infantry Battalion; a period of about 15 months interrupted only by two short spells in hospital, the first time with a peptic ulcer and the second time for ‘debility’. During this 15-month period he was promoted to Temporary Corporal on 27 August 1916, to replace a wounded comrade, and to Corporal on 26 October 1916.
On 11 July 1917 he was transferred to the 1st Training Battalion in England where he was appointed to the Permanent Cadre to Complete Establishment. From that date until 1 June 1918 his duties involved training other troops, but he also attended training courses, including a course at the Army School of Physical Training and Bayonet Fighting at Aldershot from 1-25 October 1917, where he qualified as ‘good’.
On 1 June 1918, Frederick was posted back to France where he re-joined the 1st Infantry Battalion on 10 June 1918. On 19 July 1918 he was promoted to Sergeant before being posted to 1st Division Guard Duties on 18 August 1918. He re-joined the 1st Infantry Battalion on 1 September 1918 and on 18 September 1918 he was killed in action at Herbécourt. His gravesite is unknown, and he is commemorated at the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France.
In addition to the two Bingley brothers killed in action, a third brother, Sergeant George Bingley, was wounded in action at Villers-Bretonneux, but survived the war.
(NAA B2455-3083212)

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