WORLD WAR I
Bingham War Memorial
Service Record
| 89937 | Charles Green | Royal Army Medical Corps, 10th Sanitary Section | Born 1896 |
| Medal card | Awarded Victory and British Medals. | ||
| Roll of Honour | Roll says RAMC. Served in Salonika, Mesopotamia and Egypt | ||
| Absent Voters | Service Number and corps from Absent voters list (Church Street,
entry above is Chesterfield Arms) A Sanitary Section of the Royal Army Medical Corps (consisting of a Lieutenant or Second-Lieutenant, 2 Sergeants, 2 Corporals, 20 Privates and 1 batman) was added to each Division in early 1915. Its job was to maintain as far as possible clean water supplies, cooking facilities and billets, de-lousing stations and similar facilities. The Sanitary Sections were withdrawn from Divisions and came under Corps or Army control from March 1917 onwards. (Long Long Trail). 10th Sanitary Section, Royal Army Medical Corps joined 7th Division on the 9th of January 1915. 7th Division was on the Western Front during 1915-197 and moved to Italy in 1918. Having been detached from Division it is likely (from the roll of honour) to have been in Salonika etc. after that. |
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| Service Record | Cover sheet gives address as Long Acre Bingham. Disembodied
10-12-19. Enlisted 15/7/15 On enlistment: Height 5’ 6½”, 120 lbs. chest 35½” (expansion 3”) Enlisted by Sherwood Foresters but posted immediately to RAMC. List of postings shows: Disembodied form states: Single, confectioner, postal address Long Acre Bingham. Approved society: Manchester Unity of Oddfellows Period of service: 4 years 148 days, of which 1 y 90d in India and 1y 131d in Mesopotamia. Born Saxondale 1896. Father’s name George. |
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Family history etc
| Charles Green | |||
| 1896 | Born Saxondale | ||
| Census 1901 | Living at Mortimer’s Farm, Bingham with: Father: George, b 1862 in Haceby, Lincs Mother: Eliza, b 1860 in Upton, Lincs Siblings: George W, Ethel, Mabel, b 1892 Bingham Frank, b 1894 Saxondale Also Boarders: Charles Skillington,18 b Southwell Alfred Woodcock,18 b Carlton le Moorland |
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Mortimer’s farm, Tithby Road, was one of a group of farmhouses used to accommodate workers either on Brackendale Farm or Whitefields Farm. |
| Census 1911 | Living in a five roomed house on Grantham Road, Bingham with Father: George Mother: Eliza Brother: Frank |
Baker’s Porter Agricultural labourer Baker’s errand boy |
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| By 1916 CWGC |
Parents living in Needham Street | ||
| Note | This family history is an interesting window on the movements of agricultural workers in the 19th and early 20th centuries who often were quite peripatetic, often revealed in the different places of birth of the children, perhaps until they reached a settled job like foreman, as George did. George would have been 48 in 1911, perhaps a bit early for retirement to Bingham. Haceby is 9 miles east of Grantham; Somerby is 30 miles from Haceby. | ||
| 1920 | Charlie was a member of Royal British Legion, Bingham. Listed in the history of BRBL as C Green, served in WW1 | ||