Private Austin Henry Bingham
- Rank
- Private
- Appointment
- Australian Army 1916 Western Front
- Service number
- 5339
- Unit
- 16 Battalion
- Cause of death
- Killed in Action
- Place of death
- Mouquet Farm, France
- Date of death
- 30 August 1916
- Age
- 25
- Plaque number
- M752A
- Co-located plaques
- M752 - PTE Albert Crothers
- Dedicated by
- His family on 19 August 2017
- More information
Biography presented during plaque dedication:
Private Austin Henry Bingham of 16 Battalion was born at Williams, Western Australia in May 1891.
His parents were William Henry and Hannah Maria Bingham of Armadale, Western Australia and he had six brothers and six sisters.
Little is known of his early life other than he was employed in the farming industry.
He enlisted in February 1916 the same day as his brother Arthur and both were allotted to 17 Reinforcement of 16 Battalion.
After initial training at Blackboy Hill Military Camp he embarked at Fremantle in April 1917 on HMAT Aeneas bound for the war in Europe.
Austin was taken on strength of 16 Battalion in August, 1916. At that time the unit was engaged in bloody trench warfare and the first major action was at Pozieres in the Somme valley.
Private Austin Henry Bingham, service number 5339, was killed in action on 30 August 1916 at Mouquet Farm near Pozieres, in the Somme valley. He was 25 years of age.
His name appears on the Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Picardie, France.