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Born in Pembroke, Bermuda, the son of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Gorham, he enlisted in the Bermuda Volunteer Engineers in 1938. The unit was mobilised, along with the other part-time units of the Bermuda Garrison (the Bermuda Militia Artillery (BMA), Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps (BVRC), and the Bermuda Militia Infantry), when the Second World War was declared.
Bermuda Rifles 2-i-C Captain RM Gorham DFC at 1953 Coronation US President JF Kennedy with BMA officer inspects Bermuda Rifles in 1961 Battle Dress was the standard field uniform for Bermudian Territorials from the 1940s to the 1960s, but tropical dress was worn in the summer months. Bermuda Local Forces Orders, October, 1954
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Gorham would serve only briefly with the Bermuda Militia Artillery before he followed Gosling across the Atlantic to serve as an air observation post pilot, directing the fire of artillery guns, having received a Regular Army (Royal Artillery) emergency commissions on 8 July 1942. Gorham also served after the war in the Bermuda Rifles (as the ...
Returned to Bermuda (with four other soldiers) on 8 April 1919, aboard the SS Chaleur from Halifax, NS. Canadian Great War Project lists as having served in the Bermuda Volunteer Rifle Corps before enlisting as a Trooper in 6th Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles, and his final unit as the 2nd Field Company, Canadian Engineers.
Bermuda had maintained its own militias (in which all able-bodied, adult males, free or enslaved, were required to serve) since British rule officially began in 1612. With the buildup of the Royal Naval Dockyard and the attendant Regular Army garrison in the years following the American War of Independence, however, the Government of Bermuda quickly lost interest in funding a militia that ...
Mel Gorham (born 1959), American actress; Nathaniel Gorham (1738–1796), American politician; Sire Richard Gorham (1917–2006), Bermudian soldier, aviator, businessman, and philanthropist; Robert Gorham, aka Rob da Bank (born 1973), British disc jockey; Sarah Gorham (born 1954), American poet; Scott Gorham (born 1951), American guitarist and ...
No. 655 Squadron RAF was a unit of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War.Numbers 651 to 663 Squadrons of the RAF were air observation post units working closely with Army units in artillery spotting and liaison.