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In Trinity with Palm Grove United Reformed & Methodist Church, Claughton, Birkenhead, although when the plaque was installed it was called Trinity Presbyterian Church. He died at Calvinia on February 11th after being wounded on the 5th of that month.
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The reason the plaque is placed where it is is because the three stained glass windows to the left are a memorial to his mother.
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...............Erected by William / Bingham,..Lingdale House / In affectionate Memory of
his beloved wife Catherine / Anderson. - Who departed / this life on June 12 th, 1900.
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. ....The death has been announced of Lieutenant John Anderson Bingham, son of Mr. William Bingham, J.P., of Lingdale House, Birkenhead, who received fatal wounds at Middlepost, South Africa. Lieutenant Bingham was granted a commission in the 8th (Scottish) Volunteer Battalion King's (Liverpool Regiment) last year, his rank being second lieutenant. A month or two later he volunteered for active service with the Imperial Yeomanry, and, being accepted, he joined the draft of the Duke of Lancaster's Own who formed the 23rd Company of the Imperial Yeomanry. With this force he saw much active service, but on the 6th of this month, in an engagement at Middlepost, he was severely wounded, and died at Calvinia, Cape Colony, five days later. Lieutenant Bingham, who was exceedingly popular with the officers and rank and file of the 8th Scottish, first associated himself with the volunteer movement when at Merchiston College, Edinburgh. His brother, Mr. D. A. Bingham, is a captain in the 8th Scottish. The deceased was a member of the firm of Messrs. William Bingham, Brothers, and Co., corn merchants, of Liverpool.
Birkenhead Advertiser, Saturday 22nd February 1902
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Berenice
From Palmer, a little more information about Lt. Bingham's active service in South Africa.
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Calvinia Cemetery, South Africa