Career
Gorman was 20 years old, and a seaman in the Naval Brigade of the Royal Navy during the Crimean War when the following deed took place for which he was awarded the Venture capital. Their muskets were re-loaded for them by the wounded soldiers under the parapet and eventually the enemy fell back and gave no more trouble. He is buried in the Old Balmain Cemetery, Norton Street, Leichhardt, New South Wales, Australia. Which in 1944 was closed and converted to a public park, "Pioneers Memorial Park".
There is a plaque in his memory on the War Memorial in Loyalty Square, Balmain.