Lieutenant-Colonel Bill Bingham
Royal Winnipeg Rifles

[H]e was struck in the right upper frontal region by a fragment of shell … septic brain matter was exuding from the wound and X-Rays showed many fragments of bone in neighborhood of wood. On Oct 15th he was trephined and a perforated metal tube introduced. He has made an excellent recovery.

(Personnel file, medial board report, 13 Oct 1915)

Born on 7 September 1890 in Altemont, Manitoba, William John Bingham was a farmer and First World War veteran twice awarded the Military Cross. He enlisted with the 32nd Battalion out of Winnipeg in December 1914. He joined the 10th Battalion in France as a reinforcement officer following the Second Battle of Ypres. Within a month he had been promoted to captain but would be invalided with a serious head wound in October 1915.

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