WORLD WAR I

Bingham War Memorial

31309 [RIF] 43010 [N&D] 159932 [MGC]	Private James Kerry	11th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Notts. & Derby (Sherwood Foresters) Machine Gun Corps.	b. 1893
Medal card	Awarded Victory and British medals (on MGC list)	11th Battalion was a service battalion formed in Omagh from volunteers from Donegal and Fermanagh.
Service Record	Service record from Dublin record office shows he was in Canadian General Hospital in Bolougne 26/9/1916 with other men from British Expeditionary Force. He was sick not wounded. He had Orchitis (‘non ven’) [swollen testicles]
Roll of Honour	Served on the Western Front and in Russia. Wounded three times. AVL has service no 43010 but shows him serving with RIF.
AVL	Address: Central Hall Cottages, Long Acre

1893	James Kerry
1916	Married Nellie (Mary Ellen) Langsdale in Nottingham on 8 September 1916 Children: Margaret 1917 in Bingham Nellie 1919 in Bingham James W 1922 in Bingham	Soldier 11th Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers Age 25; Machine fitter Address: Stewart Street Alfreton Nellie b. Nottingham 1891	His father: Joseph Kerry, Machine Fitter Her father: John Langdsdale, domestic coachman
1918	AVL Address given as Central Hall Cottages, Bingham	The cottages were under the Primitive Methodist chapel. The building is now the Horse and Plough public house. The false doors are to suggest the use as cottages.
Electoral register	1918: James Kerry, Central Hall Cottage, Long Acre. 1921-26: Central Hall Cottage James Kerry and Mary Ann Kerry		1921 James given as NM (Naval or Military Voter)
1939 Register	70 Reydon Drive, Nottingham: James Kerry, b. 30 Jun 1893, married Nellie (Mary Ellen) b.19 June 1891 Margaret B. 29 Jan. 1917 Three closed registers	Labourer in gun factory Unpaid Domestic duties Sewing machinist ladies dresses and overalls Nellie , James and ?
	Mary Ellen Kerry neé Langsdale was the daughter of Sarah Jane neé Bacon and granddaughter of Philip and Sarah Bacon neé Gray of Bingham
1967	Poss death Nottingham