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Pte. J. Moore
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Blaydon
Pte. James Moore
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.2nd March 1915)
James Moore was killed in action in the Battle of Ypres on the 2nd of March 1915 and is interred in Belgium
Pte. James Moore
British Army 8th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Belfast
My father, James Moore was born in 1884. He served in the Royal Irish Rifles and was a prisoner of war in Kriegsgefangenen Lager, Hameln, Hannover Germany. I have a photo dated 28th January 1917 sent from the prison at Christmas time. The photo includes various soldiers in an assortment of uniform garments and from lots of different countries by the style of the clothing.
Pte. Joe Moore
8th Company Royal Army Medical Corps
from:34 Holin Terrace, Marsh, Huddersfield
My father served at Royds Hall to my knowledge at least from July 1916 to October 1918 as I have original copies of the hospital magazine for these dates.
John Trid Moore
British Army 14th Btn. att 109th Light Trench Mortar Bty Royal Irish Rifles
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Pte. John Moore
British Army 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Newcastle upon Tyne
(d.21st Sep 1914)
John Moor enlisted in Newcastle and served with the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry. He was killed in action age 29 on the 21st September 1914 and is remembered at Jarrow Library and La Ferte-sous-Jouarre Memorial. His medal card records the award of the 1914 Star, War and Victory Medals.
John was born in Jarrow 1885, son of Thomas and Mary Moore nee McClure of 17 Elliot Terrace Newcastle. n the 1911 census John is listed with the regiments return in Barracks while the rest of the family is living at Elliott Street, Thomas(53) a Tailor, with his wife of 29 years Mary(48) who had 9 children, eight of whom survived. Five are still living at home.
Pte. John Crawford Moore
British Army 2nd Btn. Hampshire Regiment
from:123 Dumbarton Road, Glasgow
(d.8th May 1915)
John Moore was the son of Mary Moore, of 123 Dumbarton Rd., Glasgow, and the late William Moore. John was born at Cairncastle, Co. Antrim, and served with the 2nd Btn. Hampshire Regiment. He died on 8th May 1915. John is remembered in Cairncastle Presbyterian Church, Cairncastle, Larne, Co Antrim.
Pte. Joseph Moore
British Army 2nd Batt. Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Donington lincs.
(d.1st July 1916)
L/Cpl. Joseph Moore
British Army 1st Btn. Kings Regiment (Liverpool)
from:Liverpool
Pte. Joseph Moore
British Army 7th Battalion Royal Sussex
from:London
Pte. Leonard James Moore
British Army Remounts Army Service Corps
from:Wingfield, Wiltshire
All we know about the war service of my great grandfather, Leonard Moore is that he served with the Remounts section of the Army Service Corps, other than he said he was at the Somme, but we don't know for sure. In his civilian life he was a carter. He died in 1962. We have no photos on our side of the family of him in uniform.
Pte. Michael Moore
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Newcastle
Pte. Michael Moore
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Dublin
(d.21st March 1918)
Michael Moore was my great uncle. He died on 21st March 1918 in the German attack at St Quentin. Michael is recorded on the Pozieres Memorial. He was the son of Mary Anne Moore of 20, Lombard Street East, Dublin.
Pte. Michael Moore
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Engineers
from:Leeds, West Yorkshire
Michael Moore is my grandad. He volunteered in 1914 and went to France on 26th August 1915. He took part in the fighting at Ypres, La Bassee, Lens, Armentieres and lastly the Somme. He was badly wounded at the Somme, taking a bullet in his head. Michael was declared unfit in 1916 and discharged. He later rejoined for 12 months and was engaged on important duties in connection with the Graves Registration Department. He held the 1914-15 Star and General Service and Victory Medals.
Pte. Percy Frank Moore
British Army 1st Btn. Gordon Highlanders
from:Aberdeen
Percy Moore enlisted on 2nd February 1910 at Aberdeen. He stated his place of birth as Aberdeen, probably in the hope it would sound more desirable for the Gordon Highlanders than his actual birth place of Guernsey. His age on enlistment was 19 years and 5 months, his service numbers were 405, and later as a reservist 2865163 - which he was from 11th April 1921 to 7th April 1926.
Percy was taken a Prisoner of War. He was captured near the village of Bertry south of Le Cateau, France on 26th of August 1914. Sadly, my Grandfather talked very little about his experiences, in fact my mother says it was a taboo subject all of her childhood. She was amazed to find that he talked a little more openly to his grandchildren, my brother and I during the 1960/70s.
All that I remember him saying was that if it wasn't for a shrapnel wound to his leg he would have managed to escape the Germans. By the accounts above some soldiers did make it out of the conflict at Le Cateau. Cruelty - I remember so clearly that when I was about 7-8 ish my grandfather told my brother and I about the time he nearly lost an eye. "A German soldier was bullying us British and he took a particular dislike to me, he followed me and when I entered a room on my own he came at me with a pen-knife and said he was going to remove my eye with it. I believed him and was very frightened! Luckily for me and just in the nick of time a higher ranking soldier came in and stopped him." There is probably so much more to this story, but as with many of my fellow genealogists I just wish I'd asked the right questions and recorded the stories at the time, but in fairness I was only 7 years old at the time.
Another anecdote Percy told was that he was imprisoned with the entertainer Maurice Chevalier. All these years later I am able to verify that Maurice was indeed imprisoned in WW1, and in two of the same camps as Percy. How well he knew him I cannot be sure, but my mother was sure that he shared quarters with him.
Percy worked as a personal butler for Rupert Keppel after the war. My mother told me that they met whilst imprisoned, and remained in contact on their repatriation. In what capacity a bond developed - a friendship, or in service I cannot be sure, but they were both taken prisoner a day apart Landrecies and Le Chateau. I suspect their association started shortly after capture. Records suggest that prisoners of officer ranks were held in different camps to other ranks and it is difficult to decipher from the Red Cross records whether they were in the same camps at the same time, thus placing them together during their internment. A bond between them certainly did occur, because Percy worked for Rupert Keppel as soon as he got married and came back from Switzerland. I assume his employment terminated soon after the annulment of Keppel's marriage in 1921. My Grandfather was very respectful of Hon. Rupert Keppel and later named his son Derek in his honour.
From all that I have read, it would seem that Percy would have been sick or injured to be transferred to Switzerland. I know that he received a leg injury during the retreat of the Battle at Le Cateau, but I always assumed he recovered from that quite well - he never limped or used a walking stick in later life. Infectious disease were rife in the camps, and by 1918 Percy had had three and half years of internment so it would be no wonder that he was susceptible to some infection - a lung problem perhaps, or malnutrition. Whatever it was there is no mention of it in his postcards to Hilda, and in general afterwards. I have also learned that it became every prisoners' goal to get to a neutral country. All manner of bribery and trickery was employed (understandably) to get the authority to be moved.
Another reason to be moved was if the Rt. Hon R Keppel was moved to Switzerland and he persuaded the authorities to let him take Percy too as a valet, I have read that other officers did this - just my theory. I always assumed from what my mother told me that they were together in Leysin, but I have not found any evidence to this end. Further research revealed mention that prisoners in Germany of four years or more could apply to be transferred to Switzerland, so maybe that was reason enough!
At present I don't know where Percy returned too in December 1918. Newspapers in Aberdeen listed returning soldiers and their names, but his is not on those lists.
He would have no reason to want to return to Scotland because his parents were now living in Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire, and Hilda would be living with his sister Lily in Coventry. He may have been received back to Barracks in Colchester, Plymouth or Aldershot. Whether or not he was then confined as he puts it in one of his cards I'm not sure, but I should imagine he would have wanted to get straight to see Hilda for her birthday on 15th December. In any case, it couldn't have been long because they were married in Whittlesea, Cambridgeshire on 1st January 1919.
Pte. Ralph Edgar Moore
3rd Btn. Duke of Cambridge's Own Middlesex Regiment
from:Hastings, Sussex
(d.13th Feb 1915)
Pte. Reginald Francis Moore
British Army 1st Btn. Artists Rifles
from:Walworth
(d.10th Oct 1917)
Frank Moore was is my Uncle, he died in the Great War at a place called Irish Farm. I know very little about him. My Mother, now deceased, was five years old when he died. He is remembered at Tyne Cot and I have seen his name there. I would love to know more but never will now so this is just to remember his name and the life he sacrificed for us.
Pte Richard Moore
British Army 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Shieldfield, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
(d.18th Jun 1918)
Moore, Richard. Private, 326224, Killed on 18th June 1918. Aged 19 years.
Buried in Terlincthun British Cemetery, Wimille, Pas de Calais, in grave I. A. 35.
This Richard Moore is believed ident with Pte 19/1141 Richard Moore. This is the only Richard Moore shown on CWGC records in the 12th Royal Scots. 19th N.F. Btn history states he was attached to 12th Royal Scots and was killed with them. Also his parents home address supports this theory.
Son of Mary and the late Robert Moore, of Shieldfield, Newcastle-on-Tyne.
From the 19th Btn Northumberland Fusiliers Roll of Honour.
Pte. Richard Louis Bertram "Riccardo" Moore
British Army 15th (2nd Birmingham) Battalion, B Company, 6 Platoon. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Stourbridge
My grandfather, Richard Moore, was the Birmingham Regimental poet, Ricardo, who wrote The Warblings of a Windy Warrior.
As my siblings and I never met him, the information I have about him is somewhat vague. I do know that he was born in 1894 in Stourbridge and attended King Edwards School and also Stourbridge Grammar School. After leaving school, he was an articled architect for 4 years, during which time he also joined the Special Reserves of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment. I understand that he was originally intended to join the Royal Navy but due to a snake bite he missed the deadline. My grandfather was a keen swimmer and played water polo for Stourbridge and was due to go and live with relatives in Australia when he had his front teeth knocked out in a polo match, as a result of which he had to give up his army reserve commitment in 1913.
He re-joined the Royal Warwickshires in August 1914 and it is my understanding that after surveying and mapping a mined area in Arras that was under fire, he was recommended for a commission and on 24th of January 1917 was gazetted as a Lieutenant to the Somerset Light Infantry. I believe that during WW1 he was wounded 3 times and gassed 3 times and was invalided home in 1918 but was later recalled to serve in Murmansk and Archangei as draft conducting officer and then onto India and the Malay States.
Whilst on indefinite sick leave because of his head wounds, he returned to Stourbridge and between 1920 and 1922 worked as a district reporter for the County Express in order to supplement his leave pay. My grandfather then returned to France with the architectural department of the Imperial War Graves Commission. In 1928 he was granted life retired pay and again returned to Stourbridge where he set up in practice as an architect and surveyor, whilst continuing to do freelance work for local newspapers, writing news articles and short stories about local places and things.
In 1938, I understand that my grandfather relinquished his commission to join the Territorial Army with the 8th Army Field Workshop as a corporal and once again returned to France with his unit in the 50th Division, when again he was wounded in the head and evacuated from Dieppe just before Dunkirk and after recovering was discharged to serve in R.A.F factories as an armourer examiner-mechanic.
Apart from being a soldier, architect and journalist, my grandfather was a linguist and he also continued to write many stories and books, some of which were serialised in Canada My grandfather died in February 1971, with his requiem taking place at the Catholic Church in Stourbridge and was buried at Norton Road Cemetery in Stourbridge.
Pte. Robert Moore
British Army 11th Btn Royal Irish Rifles
(d.1st Jul 1916)
L/Cpl. Stanley Harding Moore
British Army 2/5th Btn. Lincolnshire Regiment
from:Reeth, North Yorkshire
(d.11th Apr 1917)
Stanley Moore joined up underage and died aged 19 in 1917, he has no known grave but is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial. We have a copy of a poem written by Capt R Ancell (1st Seaforth Highlander - Capt) to Stanley parent's on hearing of his death. I am struggling to find any trace of Capt R Ancell - I would love to know something about the man that wrote the poem.
Pte. Sydney George Moore
British Army 6th Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment
from:Geddington, Northamptonshire
(d.17 Feb 1917)
Sydney George Moore was born in 1898, in Geddington, Northamptonshire, son of Mary Jane and Harry Moore. He died on 17th February 1917 during an assault on Boom Ravine near Miraumont.
Dvr. Thomas Moore
British Army 24th Divisional Train, 4th Coy. Army Service Corps
(d.26th Feb 1916)
Thomas Moore served with the Army Service Corps 4th Company. 24th Divisional Train. He was executed for murder on 26th February 1916, aged 26. He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial.
Dvr. Thomas Moore
British Army 36th Div Ammunition Column Royal Field Artillery
from:63 Sandy Row, Belfast
(d.8th Sep 1918)
Thomas Moore enlisted as 41059 RAMC. Thomas was killed in action on the 8th September 1918 and is buried at Bertenacre Military Cemetery, Fletre, France. He was formally of 63 Sandy Row, Belfast.
If anyone could help me in regards to what his military history was I would be very grateful. I am unable to trace the exact battles that he fought in and also how he was killed. It also seems that I cannot get a copy of his will.
Pte. Thomas William Moore
British Army 11th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Main Street, Bailieborough, County Craven, Eire
After the war Thomas Moore emigrated to Johannesburg, South Africa. This was owing to the political situation in Ireland. His family never heard from him again.
L/Cpl. Thomas Henry Moore
British Army 2nd Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
from:Maiden Newton, Dorset
(d.18th Oct 1916)
Thomas Moore is a member of our East Pennard Band of Brothers, one of over 100 soldiers connected to the small village of East Pennard in Somerset, who went off to fight in World War One. As a boy he attended our village school, then worked as a farm labourer in the village after that. He saw active service in France from the 1st June 1915 and is believed to have died at some point during the Battle of the Somme, during the Battle of the Transloy Ridges.
Pte. William Richard Moore
Australian Imperial Forces 36th Btn.
from:9, Rymer Rd., Wandsworth, London, .
(d.7th Jun 1917)
Rifleman William Moore
British Army 10th Royal Irish Rifles
from:51 Eureka Street, Belfast
Rifleman Moore was my Granda and served in France during WW1. He had 3 medals and was shot and wounded in 1917.
Pte. William John Moore
British Army 5th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Belfast
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Rflmn. William Frederick Moore
British Army 20th Btn., C Coy. King's Royal Rifle Corps.
from:Erith, Kent
This soldier was my grandfather.
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