BORN HULL 13/08/1892. SON OF WALTER BINGE & HENRIETTA DUKES STEPHENSON, 6 MARFLEET TERACE, AND LATER 4 BRONBY’S TERRACE, CRAVEN STREET, HULL. HE HAD A BROTHER CALLED HARMAN AND ONE SISTER, EVA, WHO LIVED AT PINEWOOD COTTAGE, HOLDERNESS ROAD.
HE JOINED THE NAVY ON 14/12/1909. HE THEN WORKED AS A LABOURER FROM 1911 AT EARLES SHIPYARD, HULL. ALSO A PROMINENT MEMBER OF HULL’S SALVATION ARMY. HE MARRIED IN 1913. HIS WIFE HILDA WIGGLESWORTH LIVED AT 3 CORONATION AVENUE, RUSTENBURG STREET, HULL. HE SERVED WITH THE 1ST EAST RIDING FIELD COMPANY, ROYAL ENGINEERS DURING THE WAR AND WAS KILLED IN ACTION, ON 23/05/1916, AGED 22. HE IS BURIED AT LOKER CHURCHYARD, YPRES, BELGIUM.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 13/06/1916, WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE EAST RIDING ROYAL ENGINEERS, MEMORIAL AT HULL MINSTER. HE IS RECORDED AS KILLED ON THE RUSTENBURG STREET, ROLL OF HONOUR (Hull Daily Mail 25 September 1916)
HIS BROTHER, PRIVATE, HARMAN BINGE, 7TH EYR, DIED OF WOUNDS, ON 3/01/1917. HIS BROTHER IN LAW, JOHN THOMAS WRIGGLESWORTH WAS GASSED.
