Person    | Male  Born 1898  Died 23/3/1918

D. Gorman

War dead, WW1 i

Commemorated on a memorial as having died in WW1.

D. Gorman

Signaller in 19 London.

Andrew Behan researched this man: Private Desmond Thomas Gorman was born in 1898 in Hampstead, the fourth son and the fifth of the fourteen children of Thomas Gorman and Mary Margaret Gorman née Keirnan (Charles Gorman being his elder brother). His father was a Copper Plate Printer Foreman working for a bank note printer. The 1901 census shows him living with his parents and two of his elder brothers, Charles and David, at 69 Kerslake Road, Willesden. The 1911 census informs that he was a school pupil residing with his parents and eight siblings at 55 Roderick Road, Hampstead.

In April 1915 at Camden he enlisted in the 19th (County of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (St Pancras), service number 4012. In 1917 when service numbers were changed to six digits his number became 611135. He entered France on 12 October 1917 and on 26 October 1917 he transferred to the 3rd (City of London) Battalion, The London Regiment (Royal Fusiliers), service number 275267. He was killed in action, aged 19 years, on 23 March 1918. As he has no known grave he is commemorated on panel 86.A, of the Pozieres Memorial, Somme, France. On 16 October 1918 his father received his army effects totalling £9-7s-1d. He was also sent his war gratuity of £14-0s-0d on 17 November 1919 and these payments were made to 12 Wildwood Grove, North End, Hampstead to where the family had moved.

He was posthumously awarded the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal.

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