Private 12080 Frank ORAM

9th Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Killed in action in the First Battle of Kut, Mesoptamia 19th April 1916 age 32

Commemorated Basra Memorial, Iraq. Panel 9

Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals

Son of the late Thomas and Jane Oram, Pond Cottage, Tin Hat, Westbury, Wiltshire

Husband of Beatrice Eileen Oram (nee Hodgkins), 4 Wide Yard, Garratt Street, Attleborough, Nuneaton

Links to Relevant Information

CWGC Page for Private Oram

Basra Memorial

Royal Warwickshire Regiment

Other Information

1882 Born in Wiltshire

1891 Census living in Orcheston St Mary, Amesbury, Wiltshire with his parents Thomas and Jane, and siblings George and Amy. Father employed as an Agricultural Labourer

1901 Census living at The Rectory, Orcheston, Wiltshire with his widowed mother and niece. He was employed as a gardener

1913 married Beatrice Hodgkins at Lichfield