Service Details
Name:
 BINGHAM
Given Name:
 AUSTEN
Initials:
 A
Rank:
 Midshipman
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Regiment:
 Royal Naval Reserve
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Unit:
 H.M. Trawler Colsay
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Date of Death:
 1944-11-02
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Date of Birth:
 1925-11-07
Age:
 18
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, while in H.M.S. Colsay, one of a mine-sweeping flotilla, sunk of Ostend, Belgium by a German human torpedo (Neger)
Additional
Information:
Son of William Hopworth Bingham and Constance Preston Bingham, of Ladysmith, Natal, South Africa. Born Ladysmith, Natal. Educated Ladysmith High School, Natal; General Botha Cadet Draft 1942/43 (Junior Cadet Captain).
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Suffolk
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Cemetery:
 LOWESTOFT NAVAL MEMORIAL
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Grave Reference:
 Panel 13, Column 3.

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