BORN HULL 1894. SON OF ARTHUR BINNS & MARGARET (BOWRAN) AT 24, PEMBERTON STREET, HULL (ARMY ADDRESS) & 9, UPTON STREET, HULL.
EX RECKITTS WORKER. APPRENTICE JOINER, MESSERS HANCOCK, WATERLOO STREET, HULL.
HE ENLISTED IN HULL, ON 03/10/1914. HIS ARMY RECORDS DESCRIBE HIM AS 5 FOOT 5.5 INCH TALL, 133 LBS WEIGHT, 36 INCH CHEST, GOOD PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT, BROWN EYES, AUBURN HAIR, WITH DEFECTIVE TEETH. HE ARRIVED IN FRANCE, ON 09/09/1915. HE DIED OF GUNSHOT WOUNDS TO THE HEAD, AT THE 2ND CASUALTY CLEARING STATION, ON 06/11/1915, AGED 21. BURIED AT BAILLEUL COMMUNAL CEMETERY, FRANCE. HE HAD SERVED FOR 1 YEAR AND 25 DAYS.
UNMARRIED. HIS ARMY EFFECTS WERE LEFT TO HIS FATHER, ARTHUR. HE LEFT THREE BROTHERS, LEONARD, ERNEST AND GEORGE, AND SISTER, MAGGIE.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL TIMES, ON 13/11/1915.
HIS NAME IS LISTED ON THE DANSOM LANE ROLL OF HONOUR.
