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Pte. Arthur Moore
British Army Gloucestershire Regiment
from:Brockmore, Staffs
Rfn Arthur Doncaster Moore
British Army 1/17th Btn London Regiment
from:London
Pte. Bartholomew Moore
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dublin
Pte. Bertie Moore
British Army 5th Btn., "D" Coy Leicestershire Regiment
from:Barwell, Leics.
(d.6th August 1915)
Bertie Moore died of wounds on 6th August 1915 and is buried at Le Treport Military Cemetery, France. He was 19 years old when he died.
Pte. Bertrand Moore
British Army 6th Btn. 13 Platoon North Staffordshire Regiment
from:Stafford
I went apple picking at my grandfather's home in Eccleshall Road in Stafford in 1965. While he and I were storing the fruit in his garage he reached up to a shelf and handed me something saying: "This is for you". He died not long afterwards and I treasured that gift without ever looking at it until a few years ago. For me it was a momento to a beloved grandfather, Bertrand Moore. It was only a few years ago I decided to look at it again. It was a four inch by two and a half inch Boots pocket diary, for 1915. He was a private with the North Staffs Regiment.
Each day from when he signed up in 1914 throughout his training to travelling to France, he filled out each day, without drama, what he did and where he was stationed. Since January 1 this year I have been tweeting each day as a tribute to a modest, kind and adorable grandfather.
Charles Moore
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Agar's Lane, Cashel, Co. Tipperary.
(d.7th September 1918)
Charles Moore was killed in action in France on the 7th of September 1918.
Spr. D. B. Moore
Canadian Army 1st Canadian Tunnelling Coy.
(d.18th Aug 1917)
L/Cpl. Daniel Joseph Moore
Canadian Army Newfoundland Regiment
from:Avondale, Newfoundland
Daniel Joseph Moore of the Newfoundland Regiment, was captured in April 1917 and according to his record was at Limburg and then at Parchim. There is some correspondence sent in his own handwriting to his battalion in London asking for food and clothing. He was first reported missing, but the Geneva Red Cross got word to London confirming he was a POW. The London Office shows records of 4 parcels sent to him over a 6 week period with a message they hope he receives them. There are records of what was sent, pants, vests, shoes, hats, gloves, towels, soap and food. He never did receive any of this.
I am his granddaughter and can vividly remember that he would only have a drink at Christmas, black rum, then he would talk of the war. He would tell of how he was worked and starved to death, of seeing his buddies drop due to the terrible conditions and were just left to die. Tears would come to his eyes. He did survive the war serving 4yrs. and 131 days before he came home to Canada.
He would always celebrate Remembrance Day and two of his 3 sons served in WW2. They also came home. Any reference made to German's in WW1 would release a flurry of cursing and swearing, which was not appreciated by my mother(his only daughter) in the presence of women or children, me being one of them. He held a lot in about the war but when he would talk, it was with such emotion that he would actually shake.
He worked as a steelworker until his retirement and had 4 children, 3 boys, 1 girl. He loved the outdoors and especially fishing and hunting. He was also a car enthusiast and I can remember him polishing the chrome on his vehicles. He was one of the lucky ones, he got to come home.
Pte. Edward Thomas Moore
British Army 6th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Clapham, London,
(d.19th Jul 1916)
My husband was once told by his father that his father had once had an older brother. Although we knew nothing of him as the family did not speak of him. We suspect because it was too painful to talk about. After considerable research we found out that he was named Edward and served with the 6th Battalion, Royal Berkshires
We have been told by family, now gone, that Edward was a very tall, well built young man at age 15. We believe that because of this someone gave him a white feather, supposedly thinking he was older and ought to have enlisted. He promptly did just that, presumably lying about his age, and a year later died in France, age 16 years, possibly at the Battles of Longueval and Delville Wood.
His father was in the Royal Defence Corps and was gassed and demobbed. His uncle, Joseph Edmund, who had been a regular soldier from 1897 with the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment was also killed in 1916 near Ypres. We cannot begin to imagine how the families coped at this time as they were also very poor.
Rflmn. Edward Charles Moore
Britsh Army 9th Btn. Rifle Brigade
(d.4th Apr 1918)
Sgt. Ernest Moore
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Francis Moore
British Army 1st Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Gilnahirk, Belfast
(d.11th January 1916)
Cpl Francis Joseph Moore
British Army 8th Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment
from:Hull
(d.20th July 1916)
Pte. Frank Moore
BritisA army 11th South Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Hinkley, Leics
My Grandad, Frank Moore, always told us tales of getting wounded and going to India and he told me about finding a pair of shiny polished army boots and still inside them were the blown off feet from a soldier.
I can remember three medals that he had when I was a child. One had rainbow colours on the ribbon and the other was blue orange and white. I think the other one was red, white and blue but I am a little hazy on this one after all these years! I got his army information off his wedding certificate of all places, after I had looked in all the places I could think of and when I sent off for his wedding certificate there it all was! He was married as a Private in the 11th Lancashire Fusiliers as stated on his wedding certificate in 17th May 1919 to Eveline Payne in Hinckley Mr Frank Moore, born 22nd October 1898 in Hartshill, Warks and he died on 10th June 1975 in Stapleford, Notts.
Pte Frank Moore
British Army 1st Bn Grenadier Guards
from:Stafford
(d.25th Sep 1916)
Only found out that I had a member of my family in the Great War when my grandad died. In his brief case was a cut out from a newspaper saying that Pte Frank Moore had been killed in action in France in 1916. Also found postcards sent to and from him that my great nan kept.
Pte. Frank Moore
British Army 11th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:Hartshill, Warwickshire
Frank Moore served with the 11th Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers.
Pte. Frank Moore
Royal Warwickshire Regiment 2nd Btn.
from:Warwick
(d.25th Sep 1915)
Stoker. Frank Moore
Royal Naval Reserve HMS Defence
from:94 Frederic Street, Hartlepool
(d.31st May 1916)
Frank Moore was the son of Mary Jane and Ralph Thompson Moore. He married Emily McCabe in 1910. They had three children; Emily in 1910, Mary in 1912 and Francis in 1914. Before the war he was employed as a painter and decorator, having served his apprenticeship with Christopher and James Smyth in Hartlepool.
Frank was lost at sea during the Battle of Jutland.
Gnr. Frank Joel Moore
British Army 115th Seige Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Exeter, Devon
Sadly I have little to retell except that Grandfather, Frank Moore was gassed and shell shocked but I don't remember him ever talking about the war and the horrors he must have seen. I can only say he was a wonderful Grandfather, always ready for a game and a laugh. Just wish as a child I'd appreciated him and his fellow soldiers. I do now. God bless them all.
Frederick James Moore
Frederick James Moore born 1895/96 Here is a picture of my Grandfather serving in the First World War. He was injured at the Somme or Ypres but recovered and rejoined the front. Whilst injured he was sent to convalesce in Luton were he met my grandma. Can this help track him down. Is he wearing riding boots?
P/O.1st.Cl. Frederick Moore
Royal Navy HMS Hawke
from:13a Richmond Road, Brighton, Sussex
(d.15th October 1914)
Petty Officer Frederick Moore died when HMS Hawke was torpedoed and sunk by the U9 Captained by Kapitanleutnant Otto Wedigen
Pte. George Alfred Moore
British Army 26th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Three Bridges, Sussex
(d.7th Jun 1917 )
George Moore was my Grandfather on my mothers side. I have no other information.
George Edward Moore
British Army 174 Siege Bty. Royal Garrison Artillery
My grandfather George Edward Charles Moore was part of 174 Siege Battery. He seems to have joined up in 1916 when the government enlisted married men into the war effort. I have found a medal record card for him, but no enlistment documents. He survived the war with shrapnel wounds.
Pte George Alfred Moore
British Army 26th Btn. Royal Fusiliers
from:Three Bridges Sussex
(d.7th June 1917)
George Alfred Moore was my Grandfather. No other details are known.
Capt. Hamilton Stephen Moore MC and Bar
British 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.
Capt Hamilton Stephen Moore M.C. and bar
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Loudoun Manse, Newmilns, Ayeshire, Scotland
Sgt. Harold Moore
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Harold Moore
British Army 1st Btn. Loyal North Lancashire Regiment
from:29 West Terrace, Billy Row, Crook, County Durham
(d.27th Sep 1916)
Harold Moore was born on 1st December 1897 and was the eldest son of Robert and Margaret Moore and, like his father and grandfather before him, worked in the local pit. His death certificate states that he 'died of wounds' on 27th September 1916, we believe during The Battle of Thiepval Ridge. He is buried in Millencourt Communal Cemetery Extension, 2 km west of Albert, France, and in 1985, his niece, her husband and their son placed a posy of purple flowers on his grave.
The following piece was written after our visit and we had no prior knowledge about the pressed purple pansy found in his pocket book after his death.
Once there was a young man, hot-blooded, eager to grasp life with both hands, but this was when the century was young, and opportunities were not available in a small pit village. Life was circumscribed and dull. His parents expected him to leave school at thirteen, go down the mine, marry some nice Chapel girl and raise a family. He left school and went down the mine. At first it was an adventure: he felt more adult, more the elder brother to his two younger brothers and his baby sister. But soon it was irksome and boring. What was the point of spending his precious youth in cold, dark discomfort, some weeks never seeing daylight, never seeing the purple pansies in the garden of his home? Was this all there was to life? Then the trumpets of war blew across his little world like a celebration, "Kitchener needs you." "Me?" "Yes, You...You...You...!" He signed up. He sailed away. And the pansies waved their heads in approval and farewell. But was the mud of the trenches any better than the darkness of the mine? His world had become smaller still. Only the irregular arrival of the mail brought any lift to his spirits. And one day, in a letter, came a pansy plucked by his baby sister. How he treasured it. He pressed it in his pocket book and kissed it every day. When would he see the purple pansies again? He never did. Some time after the dreaded telegram arrived at his home, a sad little parcel came from France. And in the pocket book they found the pansy.
When the century was old, a little family entered a French war cemetery...
And the child of the child of his baby sister placed purple pansies on his grave.
Pte. Harry Moore
British Army 11th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Cardiff
(d.7th June 1917)
Harry Moore was my grandmother's brother. He worked with his father, Sam Moore, who was a tin-smith for S. Moore & Son in Cardiff. He had two sisters, Eva (my grandmother) and Eunice. He was 22 when he was killed in the Great Advance on 7th June 1917.
Pte. Henry Moore
Royal Scots Fusilliers 1/4th Battalion
from:Glasgow, Scotland
Henry Moore, born Oct. 1899 in Kirkintilloch, Scotland served with the RSF in France as a Lewis gunner.
The RSF was mobilized in Edinburg Aug. 1914 and sent to France Apr. 1918; returned from France May 1919.
Henry lived in Glasgow after the War, then sailed from Glasgow to Canada in 1923 and then on to the Detroit, Michigan USA area.
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