WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| D/21655 | Private Frederick James Cabourn | 2nd Dragoon Guards | born 1900 |
| We have not found any record of army service. He would have been only 14 when the war started and 18 when it ended. |  |
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| Roll of Honour | Served and was wounded on the Western Front | ||
Photo courtesy of Tim Branston, grandson |
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No service/pension records exist on Ancestry or other sites except Medal roll
Family history etc
| Private Frederick J Cabourn | |||
| 1900 Born Bingham |
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| 1899 | Father Frederick, b 1862 died 1899 aged 37, buried in Bingham Cemetery | ||
| Trade directories 1896, 1900,1904 | Frederick Cabourn Innkeeper, Blue Bell Inn, Station Street The later directories are clearly incorrect!  |
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| Census 1901 | Aged 1 Living in Station Street with: Widowed mother: Elizabeth A, b 1866 Bingham Siblings: Eric Henry, b Rippingale, S Kesteven 1895 Ellen Annie, b. 1896 Bingham Victoria Mary, b. 1898 Bingham |
Innkeeper (Blue Bell) |
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| Census 1911 | Living at 7 Moor Lane, a three-roomed house, Bingham with: Mother: Elizabeth Siblings: Eric Henry Ellen Annie Victoria Mary |
Working as Waggoner on farm Domestic servant |
EH (killed in WW1) |
| Grantham Journal | 5th February 1916 Frederick, along with Charles Shepperson and Walter Gamble, was fined 5 shillings, for throwing stones at a telegraph pole. | ||
| 1921 | Frederick J Cabourn married Annie Smith in Bingham in 1921 [and three sons were born ] | Annie was born in Wood Enderby, Lincs in June 1900. Her father was a shepherd. In 1911 the family lived at Scrivelsby, Lincolnshire [near Wood Enderby and half-way between Lincoln and Skegness]. | |
| Family records [from Tim Branston, grandson] |
After the war Fred worked for some years as a boiler man
at Whatton Army Camp, dates unknown. Subsequently he worked at Stanhope
House (ex-workhouse) for an unspecified time. At the time he lived in
Newgate Street. He died in 1974 at Saxondale Hospital. His sons: John: Was in the army in WW II and fought in Italy where he was badly wounded. At some point he moved to Halifax and married Doris and had 2 daughters. (Richard) Alan: Worked on the railways all his working life and was the last railway man at Bingham and that is supposedly why Cabourn House (photographs below) is so called. Died September 1996 aged 69. Married Betty and had a son and 2 daughters. |
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