Lieutenant Carl Adolf Max ("Charles") Bingen was an English officer of the British Army who died during the First World War.
He was born on 20 July 1895, at Hampstead, the son of German-born bank clerk Max Nathan and Leily Eliza Bingen (née Elsner), of London. His initial education took him to Corinth House, a boarding school for Jewish boys, before he entered Cheltenham College and the Ecole de Commerce, Neuchatel. Bingen afterwards became a junior bank clerk and volunteered shortly after war broke out in 1914. He was commissioned on 22 September 1914, in the 5th Battalion, The Royal Sussex Regiment.[1]
Bingen first went to the Western Front in February 1915. He died on 10 February 1916, killed while supervising works behind the front line.[1] On the first anniversary of his death, Bingen's family placed a notice in the Times newspaper, containing an extract from a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson:
Took his fill of music, joy of thought and seeing, Came and stayed and went, nor ever ceased to smile.[2]
His death continued to be observed with a notice in the Times until 1947. He is buried in Hebuterne Military Cemetery.
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- Ancestry.co.uk.
- Bingen, Charles Adolf Max, cwgc.org. Retrieved 21 June 2013.