ORAM, Samuel John

Carisbrooke Cemetery, Isle of Wight UKCredit: Gary Newman

Private - Military Medal
1st Battalion
Dorsetshire Regiment

Samuel was born 1883 in Newport to Charles & Fanny (nee HOLLIS) ORAM. In 1901 the family lived at 18 Trafalgar Road in Newport. Samuel married  Millie Jane BARNES on the 7th of October 1917 & lived at 23 New Street in Newport.

Samuel, aged 34, died at Portsmouth on the 8th of October 1918 from gun-shot wounds in the shoulder received in France. He was a Reservist when war broke out, & was in the first part of the fighting in Mesopotamia, but came home on leave after two years’ absence. He then went to France, & had been wounded three times previously.

Samuel is also remembered on the County & Newport Borough War Memorials.

CWGC Casualty Record

Cemetary

Carisbrooke Cemetery

Location

Carisbrooke Cemetery, often referred to as 'Mount Joy' Cemetery is located on Whitcombe Road, Carisbrooke PO30 1DW.  The cemetery was established in 1858 on land purchased by the Carisbrooke & Gatcombe Burial Board, because St. Mary's Churchyard in Carisbrooke was becoming full. The cemetery is now managed by the Bereavement Services Department of the Isle of Wight Council.
The cemetery contains 32 War Graves from the 1st & 2nd World Wars.