Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Able Seaman E. Horam, Royal Navy, who died of dysentery in service on 4 October 1915

China 1900, no clasp (E. Horam, Ord., H.M.S. Endymion.) ship partially officially corrected; 1914-15 Star (192469, E. Horam, A.B., R.N.); British War Medal 1914-20 (192469 E. Horam. A.B. R.N.); Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., G.V.R., 1st issue (192469. Ernest Horam, A.B. H.M.S. Venerable.) very fine (4) £200-£240

Ernest Horam was born in Portsea, Hampshire, on 12 November 1881 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 12 February 1897. He served in H.M.S. Endymion from 8 June 1899, and was promoted Able Seaman in that same vessel on 20 April 1902. He served from the outbreak of the Great War in H.M.S. Venerable, and was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 17 June 1915. He died of dysentery on 4 October 1915, and is commemorated on the Portsmouth Naval Memorial.