WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| 4659 | Private Frank Harris | Age 17 “A” Company 1st Bn Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derby Regiment) |
Born 1897 |
| Killed in action on 06/02/1915 |
commemorated on Le Touret Memorial | Panel 26 and 27 | |
| Army records | Click here to see his attestation form, short military history and relatives forms. Frank lied about his age when he joined up – he was 16 an 98 days, not 17 and 127 days as he claimed. | ||
| 1915 SF war diary |
The medal card notes that he entered France on 27th December
1914; six weeks later he was dead. He was the first and youngest person from Bingham to be killed in WW1. Regimental records show that he enlisted on 25th November 1913 and was killed on 6th February 1915 near Richebourg which lies between Bethune and Armentieres in the Pas de Calais. The battalion war diary records that on Feb 6h 1915 a First Aid post was shelled - some 20 shells in all - and two men were killed – one was Frank Harris |
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| Parish Magazine March 1915 | In the March 1915 All Saints’ Magazine, the Rector – The Rector Rev. Hutt- included a paragraph on Bingham’s Roll Of Honour. In it he states that “I very much fear that it is only too true that Frank Harris has been killed in the trenches, although up to the moment of writing no official news of his death has been received from the War Office. Poor lad! It was but his second turn in the trenches. Whilst it is all very sad, it must be a comfort to his parents and friends to know that he died doing the best any man can do – his duty, fighting for his King and Country. | ||
| CWGC | No family details available | ||
| Register of Effects | On 28th July 1915 Frank’s back pay of £3.10s.6d was paid to
his father and mother, as specified in his Military Will. |
On 23rd July 1919 a War Gratuity of £3.0.0. was paid to his mother, his father having died beforehand. | |
Click here for medal record card
Family history etc
| 4659 | Private Frank Harris | ||
| 1897 | Born 04/08/1897 |
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| Census 1881 |
Family living in Long Acre: Father: Frank b 1856 Bingham Mother: Hannah, b 1858 Bingham Children: Miriam, b1876 Annie, b 1878 Harriet, b 1880 |
Agricultural Labourer |
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| Census 1891 |
Family living in Spring Gardens (probably the same house as 1881): Father: Frank Mother: Hannah Children: Miriam Annie Phoebe, b 1882 Frances, b 1883 Kate ,b 1887, James, b1889 |
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| Census 1901 |
Living on Long Acre in a four roomed house with: Father: Frank Mother: Hannah Siblings: Frances Kate, b.1887, Zillah, b1893, Harriett, b1895 Hannah, b 1900 |
Farm Drainer and Labourer |
Second use of name ‘Harriett’ after first one has died, a not uncommon occurrence |
| Census 1911 |
Living on Long Acre in a four roomed house with: Father: Francis Mother: Hannah Siblings: James Harriett Hannah |
Working as Farm Labourer Farm Labourer Farm Labourer Keeps house |
His mother listed as having had 12 children of whom 2 have died Father Francis died in in 1916 |