Trooper in the Westminster Drgns.
Andrew Behan has researched this man: Private Charles Stewart Lawrence Gorman was born 1895 in Hampstead, the eldest son and the second of the fourteen children of Thomas Gorman and Mary Margaret Gorman née Keirnan (Desmond Gorman being his younger 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 younger brothers, David and Desmond, at 69 Kerslake Road, Willesden. The 1911 census informs that he was a printer apprentice lithographer residing with his parents and eight siblings at 55 Roderick Road, Hampstead.
He enlisted as a Driver in the Army Service Corps, service number 349. He transferred to the 2nd County of London Yeomanry (Westminster Dragoons), service number 116244, before finally serving in the 104th Battalion, Machine Gun Corps (Infantry), service number 151406, when he died of wounds received in action, aged 23 years, on 2 November 1918 at the 64th Casualty Clearing Station, Dadizeelehock, West Flanders, Belguim. He was buried in Plot 2, Row B, Grave 2, in the Kezelberg Military Cemetery, Wevelgem, West Flanders, Belgium. On 25 March 1919 his father received a payment of £3-1s-6d as part of his army effects followed by a final payment of £9-7s-0d on 28 April 1919. He was also sent his war gratuity of £19-0s-0d on 9 December 1919 and these payments were made to 12 Wildwood Grove, North End, Hampstead to where the family had moved.
He was posthumously awarded the 1914-1915 Star, the British War Medal 1914-1918 and the Victory Medal.
