WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| Gunner Frank Dunsmore | 2nd Siege Battalion Royal Garrison Artillery | Born 1898 | |
| The Siege Batteries were deployed behind the front line, tasked
with destroying enemy artillery, supply routes, railways and stores. The
batteries were equipped with heavy Howitzer guns firing large calibre 6,
8 or 9.2 inch shells in a high trajectory. |
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| Roll of Honour | Served on the home front. | ||
No army records on Ancestry
Family history etc
| Gunner Frank Dunsmore | |||
| 1898 | Born Bingham (no baptism record) | ||
| Census 1891 |
Father Joseph, wife and first two children living in Union Street, Bingham | Platelayer |
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| Census 1901 |
Living in a four room house in Long Acre with: Father: Joseph, b 1862 Woolsthorpe, Lincs Mother: Mary Ellen, b 1864 Bottesford, Leics Siblings: George, b 1887 Nottingham Gertrude, b 1890 Nottingham William, b 1892 Bingham Joseph, b 1894 Bingham Susan, b 1895 Richard, b 1897 |
Foreman Platelayer on Railways page boy |
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| Census 1911 |
live-in with farmer, William D Sharpe, and family in South Muskham | Farm Servant | George not in census. |
| Census 1911 |
Mabel Monks, b 1893 Bathley, Notts living in South Muskham with: Father: John George, b 1860 Redmile Mother: b 1870 Bathley Brothers: James Samuel, b 1889 Hawton, Notts John George, b 1904 Hawton, |
waggoner |
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| 1915 FreeBMD | September 1915 Frank married Mabel Monks of South Muskham | ||
1961 |
Mabel died in Newark district | ||
| 1969 | Frank died in Nottingham December 1969 | ||