Harold BINKS

Main CPGW Record

Surname: BINKS

Forename(s): Harold

Place of Birth: Well, Yorkshire

Service No: 235223

Rank: Private

Regiment / Corps / Service: Alexandra, Princess of Wales’s Own (Yorkshire Regiment)

Battalion / Unit: 13th (Service) Battalion

Division: 40th Division

Age: ---

Date of Death: 1918-03-22

Awards: ---

CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: Bay 5.

CWGC Cemetery: ---

CWGC Memorial: ARRAS MEMORIAL

Non-CWGC Burial: ---

Local War Memorial: AYSGARTH, YORKSHIRE

Local War Memorial: WEST BURTON, YORKSHIRE

Additional Information:

Harold Binks was the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Binks, née Whitehead. Thomas was born at Well and Elizabeth at Thornton Watlass, Yorkshire.

1901 Snape, Yorkshire Census: Snape Park - Harrold [sic] Binks, aged 6 years, born Well, Yorkshire, son of Thomas and Elizabeth Binks.

1911 Snape, Yorkshire Census: Salmon House - Harrold [sic] Binks, aged 17 years, born Snape. [Harold was employed by George William Trotter, Farmer.]

Harold was married to Hannah Paley (Airey) in 1916. Hannah, born 22 June 1996, was the daughter of Dorothy Airey, who married John Paley, 12 December 1896. Hannah married Harold's brother, Horace Binks, in 1930.

British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Harold Binks, 5057, 235223, York. R. Dead.

British Army WW1 Medal and Award Rolls: Pte Harold Binks, 5057, 4/York. R.; 235223, 7/York. R.; 13/York. R. Dead.

Army Registers of Soldiers' Effects: Pte Harold Binks, 235223, Yorks. Date and Place of Death: 22.3.18. France. Pres. dead. To whom Authorised/Amount Authorised: Widow - Hannah. £9 1s. 0d.

UK, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards, 1914-1923: card(s) exist for Harold. Name(s) on card(s): Widow: Hannah, born 22.6.96. Address: West Burton, Ayres Garth [sic], Yorks. Children: Dorothy, born 30.9.16.

Harold is commemorated on the Snape War Memorial.

A short biography of Harold is included in: ‘Wensleydale Remembered – The Sacrifice made by the Families of a Northern Dale 1914-1918 and 1939-1945’ by Keith Taylor (2004).

Photograph courtesy of Keith Taylor.

Data Source: Local War Memorial

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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---

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