Private Henry Bingley

Army Number: 15974

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Retford, Nottinghamshire and lived at Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. Son of Joseph and Ruth Bingley. Husband of Elizabeth Bingley, of 1 Simpsons Yard, Stockwell Gate, Mansfield. He was a bricklayers labourer prior to enlisting at Mansfield. he went to France on 27th August 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Ovillers, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Henry Bingley is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Mansfield District Council Offices Roll of Honour, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. 
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private Ernest Bingley, 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment, also fell in the Great War.