Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Africa General Service 1902-56, 1 clasp, Somaliland 1908-10 (147658 A. E. Boorman, Act. C.P.O. H.M.S. Hyacinth.) good very fine £200-£240

Dix Noonan Webb, March 2007.

Albert Edward Boorman was born in Hadlon, Kent, on 21 November 1873 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 5 January 1889. Advanced Petty Officer First Class on 10 September 1900, he joined H.M.S. Hyacinth on 27 March 1909, and was promoted Acting Chief Petty Officer on 25 August 1909. He was confirmed in that rate on 25 August 1910, and was shore pensioned on 20 November 1913, joining the Royal Fleet Reserve on 13 December 1913. Recalled for service during the Great War, he was born on the books of H.M.S. Pembroke II, and died with H.M.S. Spey collided with the S.S. Belvedere and sunk in the Thames on 7 March 1917. His body was recovered and he is buried in Gilllingham (Woodlands) Cemetery, Kent.

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