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L/Cpl. Horace Edwin Gordon
British Army 6th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
from:West Bromwich
(d.28th Jul 1916)
Horace Gordon died aged 28. I know he died of his wounds on the 28th of July 1916 in the German Hospital in Caudry. He was a PoW and is now buried in Caudry Old Communal Cemetery
Dvr. John Thompson Gordon
British Army 72nd Div. HQ Royal Field Artillery
from:Kirkcudbright, Scotland
(d.18th Nov 1918)
John Gordon died of Pneumonia on the 18th of November 1918, aged 24and is buried in the Alexandria (Hadra) War Memorial Cemetery in Egypt. He was the son of James Rae Gordon and Janet B. Gordon, of 109, High St., Kirkcudbright, Scotland
Pte. Norman Victor Gordon
Australian Imperial Force 15th Battalion
from:Gympie, Queensland, Australia
(d.17th November 1917)
Norman Gordon enlisted 29th of November 1915 aged 21 years 2 months. He went overseas with the 20th Reinforcements and joined 15th Battalion. He was captured at Bullecourt on 11th of April 1917 and was sent to Wittenberg. He was working at the Golpa coal mine and was returning to camp on 17th of November 1917 with a group of other prisoners. They were walking beside the train track and as a train approached Norman stumbled, he fell onto the track and was killed instantly. He is buried at Berlin South Great Western Cemetery Stahnsdorf.
Pte. Patrick Gordon
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Blaydon
Patrick Gordon was discharged in 1917 suffering from Shellshock
A/Cpl. Richard Smith Gordon
British Army 8th (Service) Battalion York and Lancaster Regiment
from:62 Monkton Road,Jarrow
(d.21st Oct 1917)
Richard Smith Gordon was the son of Jane E Cook (formerly Gordon) of 62 Monkton Road, Jarrow. He was born and lived in Jarrow. Richard, aged 17, general labour and is with his mother, Jane E Cook and brother living at 346 High St, Jarrow on the 1911 census.
Richard enlisted in Wallsend with the Northumberland Fusiliers Regiment. He was serving with the 8th (Service) York and Lancaster Regiment when died aged 23 on 21st October 1917. He is remembered at the Tyne Cot Memorial andis commemorated on the Triptych in St Paul's Church, Jarrow and by Jarrow Shipbuilders.
Dvr. Robert Gordon
British Army A Battery, 225th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
from:Aberdeen
My Great Grandfather, Robert Gordon, survived the war, never speaking about it except once, when his tongue loosened after a few whiskies one New Year. He wept as he told my Granda (his son born in 1915) that he remembered lying asleep in the dark after a heavy battle on what he thought was a pillow but turned out to be the body of a soldier. He never mentioned the War but remained a taciturn and stern man the rest of his long life. He died in 1970 aged 85.
C/Sgt Mjr Robert Smith Gordon
Gordon Highlanders Number 177 "C" Coy 4th Btn.
from:Aberdeen
(d. 11th Mar 1916)
Robert was my great grandfather.
He had a wife and 8 children.
We do not know exactly where, what battle, or how he died, but he died 1916-03-11 presumably once joined with the 51st Highland Division.
Sgt. Thomas Alexander Gordon MM.
British Army 16th (Tyneside Commercials) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne
(d.2nd Feb 1918)
Thomas Alexander Gordon, known as Tom, was born on 2 March 1890, at 25 Sopwith Street, Benwell, Newcastle upon Tyne. His father, William Gordon, aged 35 at the time of Tom's birth, was employed as a furnace-man at the Elswick engineering works. His mother was Hannah Gordon, nee Thompson, aged 32 at the time of his birth. It would appear that he was named Thomas for his mother's father, and Alexander for his father's father. Tom was the second of four sons born to William and Hannah. It seems that William, the eldest son, served in the Royal Marines for some time. After Tom came Duncan, probably born in 1896, who enlisted during WW1 and was killed in the Pozires sector on 29 March 1918, when serving with 1st Bn The Royal Dublin Fusiliers. The fourth brother, Robert Rutherford Gordon, also served in WW1 and apparently was gassed and invalided out.
Tom Gordon was working in the clothing department at the Newcastle Cooperative Society, as a tailor's cutter, when he enlisted in the 16th (Service) Battalion in September 1914. The Newcastle and Gateshead Chamber of Commerce raised the entire battalion in the space of eight days between the 8th and 16th of September. The battalion thus earned the nickname of "Tyneside Commercials" which its members bore proudly alongside their comrades of the "Tyneside Scottish" and the "Tyneside Irish". Tom may nonetheless have hesitated a little - his battalion number was 16/701, as he had married at the beginning of 1914, and his wife, Edith (nee Orr) was six months pregnant with their first (and only) child, William.
When the battalion landed in France, at Boulogne, on the 22nd of November 1915, Tom appeared on the embarkation list, as printed in Captain CH Cooke's "Historical Records of the 16th (Service Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers", as "TH Gordon". He was in C Company, commanded by Captain D Lindsay, who went on to win the MC and, as a Major, to be 2 in command of the Battalion. At Thiepval, Tom served in N11 platoon, if he was already in that platoon on embarkation it was then commanded by 2/Lt R Reed.
The Battalion moved rapidly from Boulogne into the front line, in the Thiepval sector of the Somme, to be greeted with the cry "Hallo, Northumberlands!" from the German lines. They remained in this sector, in the front line, or in support, or in reserve, or employed in working parties, until the big offensive known as the "First Day on the Somme", 1st of July 1916.
On the day, the battalion took up its battle position at 02:30, and finally moved forward at 07:30. A and B Companies led the attack, C Company (now commanded by Captain E Thompson) were in support, and D Company in reserve. Tom Gordon (still shown as "TH Gordon") is in the list for 11 Platoon, under the orders of Sgt CA Yarrow who had enlisted shortly after Tom. At the end of the day, the platoon had lost five killed (including two of their Corporals) and had twenty two wounded. The following day only eight officers, and two hundred and seventy nine other ranks of the battalion were able to march into their quarters.
In 1917, on 17 September (London Gazette), by which time he had been promoted to Corporal, Tom was awarded the Military Medal, along with eight other NCOs and men of the Northumberland Fusiliers. This also appeared in the 29 September issue of the regimental journal, St George's Gazette. There were no citations published for the MM (created in March 1916) but family tradition says that he had rescued a wounded officer lying out in No Man's Land, presumably on the 1st of July. By a strange coincidence, his son William, serving with the Royal Artillery in the Knightsbridge Box in 1942, was in his turn carried back to the British lines by his officer, after collapsing with rheumatic fever.
In November 1917 the battalion moved to Belgium, in the Ypres salient. Tom Gordon, now a Sergeant, was able to go home on leave for the Christmas/New Year period. It was during this leave that the only photograph of him, with his wife and son William (who had just celebrated his third birthday) was taken.
It is not known when Tom rejoined the battalion which at the end of January was in the front line near Poelcappelle, in the Ypres Salient. His death in action was reported to have occurred during the night of 1 - 2 February 1918. The battalion War Diary has this to say: "Battalion holding the line on right sector, from approximately V 7 b 15 40 across the Staden railway to U 6 d 90 60. In the evening, an inter-company relief was carried out, A Coy relieving B on the right, and C relieving D on the left. During the night a Battle Patrol under 2/Lt Brownrigg made a determined attack on an enemy post near Turenne Crossing and succeeded in entering the post. But the Germans had withdrawn to two pill-boxes close at hand from which a heavy fire was opened on the patrol. A further attack on the pill-boxes was attempted but the fire was too close and accurate, and the patrol withdrew with the loss of two killed and one wounded. All the casualties were successfully brought back."
The battalion was disbanded on 7 February 1918.
Apparently, Tom Gordon's burial place was not recorded, or else was lost. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission, in response to a query, wrote: "His grave was among those which the Graves Services were unable to trace after the war and he is, therefore, commemorated by name on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Passchendaele."
After the war, his widow, Edith, was married again, to a former colleague of Tom's from the Co-op, Ernest Kennedy. They had no children. When Edith died, in 1942, both her son William and her husband Ernest were serving abroad in HM Forces and so were unable to return home. It appears that Tom's letters and other papers, which Edith had kept, were thrown out by her second husband's family. Ironically, Tom's War Office records, along with many thousands of others, were destroyed by fire as a result of enemy bombing of London during WW2. Fortunately, when Tom and Edith's son, William (my father), returned to Newcastle at the end of WW2 he was able to recover his father's decorations, including his Military Medal.
CSM William Gordon
British Army 1st Btn East Lancashire Regiment
from:Balletar, Aberdeenshire
When the USA joined the war in 1917, soldiers were selected or volunteered to form a British Army Mission to USA to teach US soldiers about fire arms/guns etc. William Gordon was one of these men. He became 2nd Lieutenant in 1st East Lancashire Regiment and was shipped off to USA.
Bt.Col. William Eagleson Gordon VC.
British Army 1st Btn. Gordon Highlanders
Captain W.E. Gordon received the Victoria Cross for most gallantry during the battle of Leeheehoek in the Second Boer War. After 1888, he was an officer in the 1st Gordon Highlanders and served them in many conflicts.
During the First World War, Brevet Colonel William E. Gordon VC was taken prisoner during the Battle of Le Cateau on 26th of August 1914. He and Lt. Col. Neish got in a big argument when they were cut off from the rest of the force and eventually some 90 percent of the regiment surrendered during the "Chances of War", although W.E. Gordon was convinced there was a chance to break through the enemy lines and get back to the British Army. During his capture, he was wounded and interned at Fort Zinna in the German POW camp in Torgau near the river Elbe. His brother, Major A. A. Gordon, a Belgian kingā€™s messenger, reports that he was a fellow prisoner with the Belgian General G. Leman, who defended the city of Liege most gallantly. However, it is reported that General Leman was a prisoner at Blankenburg, which is located some 100 km north of Torgau. In Torgau, Bt. Col. Gordon was questioned for the use of "flat nose" bullets in his revolver. Eventually, he was exchanged for a German aristocrat prisoner in Madagascar in early 1916.
He returned home to his wife and son, who was only 3 years old at the outbreak of the war. Once he set foot on British soil, he filed a report assigning responsibility for the fate of the regiment in August 1914. After Lt. Col. Neish was released from captivity due to illness and brought through Switzerland in 1916, the investigation began and a Court of Inquiry was appointed for the trial. When in 1919 an article was published by Cedric Fraser in the Dundee People's Journal, W.E. Gordon's name was smeared by the company of John Leng & Co., which owned the journal. Fraser had interviewed Corporal Mutch after his return in 1917, but had altered Mutch's words and had put words in his mouth. After W.E. Gordon confronted Corporal Mutch, he sued John Leng & Co. for Ā£5,000 pounds in a libel case alleging slander. What it made more suspicious was that two brothers of Lt. Col. Neish and Corporal Mutch were shareholders of John Leng & Co. Eventually the Court decided in favour for W.E. Gordon, and he received a claim of Ā£500.
W.E. Gordon's son also joined the Gordon Highlanders as a 2nd Lieutenant. Being a sportscar enthusiast, he was killed at the age of 20 during practice in Donington Park on August 19th, 1933 when the car in which he was a passenger overturned.The accident was reported in The Times on August 21st, 1933.
Capt. Gore MC
Australian Imperial Force
Captain Gore was a POW in Dulmen and Holzminden POW camps during the war. He escaped from Dulmen and was recaptured. He was then sent to Holzminden and spent nearly two months in solitary confinement as a punishment for attempting to escape from Dulmen.
Pte. Francis Gore
British Army 2nd Battalion Highland Light Infantry
from:Scotland
(d.25th Sept 1915)
I have only discovered Francis Gore, he is my husband's grand uncle. He was killed at the Battle of Loos.
L/Cpl George Caleb Gore
British Army 1st (Garrison) Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Rochester, Kent
(d.24th Sept 1917)
George Gore was killed in India. Buried at Quetta Government Cemetery no 2538, now in Pakistan.
Pte. Arthur Goreham
British Army 7th Btn. Norfolk Regiment
from:Norwich
(d.28th April 1917)
Arthur Goreham was killed during the Monchy Wood attacks. He was an ex-employee of Colmans Mustard. Arthur is one of 66 on the Memorial Wall at Arras.
Cpm Sgt. Major Walter Charles Gorin
Army 23 Battalion ( Bantam) Manchester Regiment
from:Redditch
(d.20th. July 1916)
Mr. Walter Gorin served with the Grenedier Guards but was then seconded to train the Manchesters before going to the Somme.Sadly we believe he was killed by a sniper leaving a wife and four children his body was not recovered from the trenches. He served from 1899 to 1902 with the Guards,he served with the 3rd Batt. Grenedier Guards through the South Africian Wars.In 1902 he was discharded to the Army reserve. Was rewarded medals possibly Queens and Kings South African medals. In 1914 he was recalled to the colours serving as a Sgt. Instructor with the Guards at Chelsea Barracks and also served at various other places till Christmas 1914. Records for Walter did not survive the WW2 Blitz.A letter to his wife in July 1916 remarked how of Fifteen sergents transferred for training to various places only two remained. The Battalion disembarked at Bolougne on the 30th January 1916 my Grandad was killed on the 20th July that year.His name is on the Memorial at Thiepval Pier and face 13 A and 14 C he was aged 37.
Pte. Bernard "Bertie" Gorman
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Omagh
Bertie Gorman joined up on the day war was declared. The story is that he ran down the garden, jumped over a hedge onto the road and headed for the local barracks. He told them he was 17 but he may still have been 16. His first theatre of war was the Balkans in July 1915.
He survived the war but suffered from paralysis of the right hand, which was a considerable handicap for someone who was a tailor by trade. Northern Ireland did not prove to be hospitable place for veterans after the war. He moved to Co. Longford for a time and then sought work in Canada. Eventually he and most of his family moved to London where his service record helped him get work in the Royal Arsenal at Woolwich. He died in 1962 a short time before he was due to retire.
RSM Francis John Gorman MID, MSM
British Army 6th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:OMAGH
(d.6th March 1919)
Frank Gorman was my great grandfather and I have only discovered anything about him a matter of weeks ago. Today is the 100th anniversary of the Battle of the Somme, and it is only right that he should be remembered with pride by his family. He joined the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers at 15 years and 6 months old in 1891, and served for 21 years 203 days finishing on 8th January 1913, returning to fight in the Great War. He died on 6th March 1919 leaving behind my great grandmother, Isabella, whom he married in 1900, as well as five daughters and two sons. I have no photos.
RSM Francis John Gorman MID, MSM
British Army 6th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Omagh
(d.6th March 1919)
Cpl. George Gorman
British Army 12th Btn. Kings Liverpool Regiment
from:Tyson Square, Ulverston
(d.18th Aug 1917)
George Gorman was killed in the Battle of Langemark on 18th of August 1917 serving with the 12th Battalion, King's Liverpool Regiment. He was originally in the 4th Battalion Kings Own Lancaster Regiment. He lived in Tyson's Square, Ulverston, then on Lancashire and was married to Margaret Ann. They had 2 children, William and Edith Mary. George worked as a shipyard labourer. George's parents William and Mary Gorman lived in Moseley Street, Blackburn, Lancashire. George was born in Kendal, Cumbria.
George is remembered on the Cenotaph in both Kendal and Ulverston.
L/Cpl. Gilbert Gorman
British Army 16th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles
from:Moybrick, Co.Down
(d.22nd Aug 1916)
Rflmn. Gilbert Gorman
British Army 16th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Moybrick Road, Dromara
(d.22nd Aug 1916)
Pte. Hugh Gorman
British Army 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Jarrow
(d.27th Mar 1916)
Hugh Gorman served with the 1st Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers, he was aged 27 when he died on 27th March 1916. He was born in Boldon son of Peter and Margaret Gorman of Boldon Colliery. On the 1911 census he is recorded as Hugh Gorman age 23 Coal Miner Hewer living with his sister Margaret McKeown and her husband Thomas McKeown and family at 10 Donkins Row, Boldon Colliery, Jarrow. He was the husband of Annie Gorman (nee Heenan) of 9 Chapel Road Jarrow. He lived and enlisted in Jarrow.
Hugh is remembered on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.
Pte. Joseph Gorman
British Army 4th Btn. Royal Irish Regiment
from:Dundalk
(d.4th Sep 1918)
Pte. Thomas Henry Gorman
British Army 4th Btn South Wales Borderers
from:Newport, Monmouthshire
(d.21st Aug 1915)
Timothy Gorman
British Army 12th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:14 Ann St. Bill Quay, Felling
My Grandad, Tommy Gorman, was a sinker at a colliery and served with the 12th Durham Light Infantry. I believe he came from Ireland. I found the details above on my father's birth certificate that I obtained from Gateshead Births Marriages and Deaths.
There was also an article from a Hebburn paper about the death of a Thomas Gorman who after a night of drinking got caught in barbed wire on the way home and died of exposure on the 26th february 1909 that could have been my grandad's brother or other relative.
If anyone could share information to help me that would be great. I live in Australia but am visiting friends at the moment. My family all lived in Hebburn before going to London before the 2nd World War. My gran was Annie and she had 10 children two of which died young they were Tommy and Alice.
Pte. William Edgar Gorman
British Army 2nd/5th Bn. A Coy. King's Own (Royal Lancaster Regiment)
from:Burnley
(d.18th May 1918)
Edgar Gorman was killed in action on the 18th of May 1918, aged 22 and is buried in the Couin New British Cemetery, France. Son of William and Rosa Jane Gorman, of Rowley House, Burnley and native of Bristol. He worked for Burnley Corporation at Hurstwood reservoir prior to enlisting. He was killed when a shell dropped into his post, killing him and another man and wounding three others.
Pte. John Gormley
British Army 1st Btn. Loyal North Lancs Rgt
(d.10th March 1915)
Private Gormley was a prisoner in Wittenberg POW Camp. He died on 10th March 1915 during the typhus epidemic which raged in the camp between January and July 1915. He is commemorated on the Wittenberg Memorial and also on the Le Touret Memorial, Pas de Calais, Panels 27 and 28.
Pte. William Gormley
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Blaydon
William Gormley was wounded in 1916
Sgt. John Alexander Gorrie
18th Btn. C Coy. Durham Light Infantry
from:Castle Eden, Co Durham
(d.27th July 1916)
John Alexander Gorrie was born on the 14th October 1891 at Gogar Park, Corstorphine, Edinburgh. Only child of David and Mary Nelson Gorrie of Parklands, Castle Eden, County Durham. Educated at Technical College West Hartlepool and Skerrys College. Resident of Castle Eden, County Durham. Killed in Action 27th July 1916 aged 24 in France. He is buried in St. Vaast Post Military Cemetery Richebourg- L'avoue.
Pte. Michael Gorry
British Army 2nd Btn. Leinster Regiment
from:Tullamore, Co Offaly, R.O.I.
(d.30th September 1916)
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