BORN HULL 18/01/1897. ELDEST SON OF RICHARD MOORE AND ELIZABETH ANN CASS , AT 16, PHEASANT PLACE, NEPTUNE STREET, HULL (1918 ABSENT MILITARY VOTERS & WAR PENSION ADDRESS). EDUCATED AT VILLA PLACE COUNTY COUNCIL SCHOOL. WAS A BOILER MAKER, LABOURING IN A FOUNDRY.
HE ENLISTED IN THE ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, ON THE 17/05/1915. SERVED IN FRANCE FROM OCTOBER 1915. KILLED IN ACTION, NEAR PERONNE, ON 06/09/1918, AGED 22. HIS COMMANDING OFFICER, WROTE, “HE WAS WITH THE GUNS AT THE TIME, AND THE ROAD WHERE HE WAS WAS BEING HEAVILY SHELLED… HE WAS A GREAT LOSS TO THE BATTERY, WITH WHOM HE WAS EXTREMELY POPULAR, AS HE IS ONE OF OUR BEST GUNNERS, AND ONE OF THE MOST WILLING AND HARDEST WORKERS WE HAD. HE WAS ALWAYS CHEERFUL AND WILLING TO DO WHATEVER WAS ASKED OF HIM. AS A SOLDIER, ONE WOULD HAVE TO FAR TO FIND A BETTER, AND AS A SOLDIER HE FELL DOING HIS DUTY.”
HE WAS UNMARRIED. A BROTHER TO, MARY, LILY, GEORGE, ELSIE AND ALMA MOORE. HIS DEATH WAS RECORDED IN THE DE RUVIGNY ROLL ON HONOUR, VOLUME 5.
GEORGE WILLIAM MOORE, DLI AT THE SAME ADDRESS.
