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245708 Capt. Hamilton Stephen Moore MC and BarBritish Army Royal Army Medical Corps from:Loudoun Manse, Newmilns, Ayrshire, Scotland I met an elderly man who is in the same nursing home as my mother. he told me of his grandfather Capt. Hamilton Stephen Moore M.C. and bar who served in the First World War. The family came from Loudoun Manse, Newmilns in Ayrshire, Hamilton S Moore's father was Rev. Hamilton Moore, and H. S. Moore had a sister Eleanor Allan Robertson nee Moore who was a well known artist, one of the Glasgow Girls. I located his POW record on the International Red Cross website, and it records the POW camp as being Rasstatt. Additional Information: | Captain Hamilton Moore was my great uncle. He never married and had no children. I suspect the elderly gentleman you met was my uncle John Moore, who had a very distinguished military career himself serving in the French Foreign Legion in Indochina, in particular at the largely forgotten battle of Route Colonial 4, where he was one of only a handful of survivors.
Captain Hamilton Moore was recommended for the VC, but that was declined and instead he was awarded an MC and bar for the same action, which is apparently a very rare award (rarer in fact than the VC - or so I was told by a medals specialist at Spinks). Patrick Moore
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| Captain Moore had three brothers, one of whom was my grandfather and my uncle's father, William Moore, who joined up in 1914 straight from school.
The story passed down through the family is that he went to the recruiting office wearing his school blazer and cap, and one of the other men there tojoin up, lent him a trilby and coat to wear instead, and on that basis he joined the army. Despite joining right at the beginning of the war, he remained a private throughout the war, winning the MM towards the end. One of his elder brothers (i forget which one) was his battalion adjutant. I think this was in the Seaforth Highlanders. Two brothers were in the Seaforths, one in the Cameron Highlanders, and the fourth was in the Navy.
After WW1 my grandfather became a doctor, joined the RAMC at the start of WW2 and was part of the BEF. When the BEF advanced into Belgium he apparently found himself in a position that had been held by his battalion towards the latter stages of WW1. It was apparently a depressing moment of clarity for him.
He got away from Dunkirk, but died later in the war, as a result of a road accident during a blackout. Patrick Moore
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