Frank Bingham

Frank Bingham
Personal information
Full name Frank Miller Bingham
Born (1874-09-17)17 September 1874
Alfreton, Derbyshire, England
Died 22 May 1915(1915-05-22) (aged 40)
Ypres, Belgium
Batting style Unknown
Bowling style Right-arm medium pace bowler
Domestic team information
YearsTeam
1896 Derbyshire
First-class debut 28 May 1896 Derbyshire v MCC
Career statistics
Competition First-class
Matches 1
Runs scored 17
Batting average 8.50
100s/50s /
Top score 11
Balls bowled
Wickets
Bowling average
5 wickets in innings
10 wickets in match
Best bowling
Catches/stumpings 0/-
Source: , April 2012

Frank Miller Bingham (17 September 1874 – 22 May 1915) was an English doctor, all round sportsman and army officer who was killed in the First World War. As a cricketer, he played for Derbyshire in 1896.

Life, military service, and death

Bingham was born in Alfreton, Derbyshire, the son of Dr Joseph Bingham. He was educated at St Peter's School, York, and qualified as a doctor at St Thomas's Hospital.

Bingham made one first-class appearance for Derbyshire, against Marylebone Cricket Club during the 1896 season. He made seventeen runs, batting in the lower order.[1] He also played rugby union for Blackheath F.C. and Middlesex. He was in practice at Alfreton for four years and then went to Lancaster.

Bingham was an enthusiastic Territorial Army officer. He was first commissioned as a medical officer with the rank of lieutenant in the Royal Army Medical Corps on 24 March 1910,[2] unusually he transferred to 5th Battalion, King's Own Royal Regiment (Lancaster) on 26 November 1910 as a line officer,[3] and so in the First World War served as a combatant rather than as a military doctor. He was promoted captain in 1914 and commanded a company. He took part in the Second Battle of Ypres in May 1915 and was killed on a reconnaissance mission after stopping to dig a man out of a collapsed trench.[4] He has no known grave, but is commemorated on the Menin Gate.[5]

References

  1. Frank Bingham at Cricket Archive. Cricketarchive.com (22 May 1915). Retrieved on 27 August 2011.
  2. "No. 28371". The London Gazette. 13 May 1910. p. 3389.
  3. "No. 28440". The London Gazette. 25 November 1910. p. 8691.
  4. Newspaper Obituaries of Frank Miller. Oucs.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved on 27 August 2011.
  5. Casualty details—Bingham, Frank Miller, Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved on 9 November 2009.
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