Name
Robert William Moore
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
02/12/1917
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
33754
Border Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 85 to 86.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield Town Memorial, Hatfield In Memoriam Book, St Luke's Church Memorial, Bishops Hatfield, We are not aware of any memorial in Roe Green
Pre War
Robert was the son of Alfred and Elizabeth Moore (nee Bourne), born circa 1890.
In the 1891 Census Robert’s parents and his older sister Mildred Jane were living in Newtown, Hatfield with Elizabeth’s parents John and Elizabeth Bourne. Robert’s gran dfarther was a superannuated police inspector and his father was a plumber.
By 1901 Robert W Moore, aged 11, is living with his parents and siblings at 147 St Albans Road, Newtown, Hatfield. His siblings were now Mildred J (13), Alfred C (8), Miriam (6), Victor F (3) and Gertrude L (11 months). Also present was widowed mother-in-law Elizabeth M Bourne. His father was still a plumber.
1911 Census: Robert, aged 21, is still living with his family, now at, 3 Albion Terrace, New Town, Hatfield. Robert is now working as a wood sawyer and his father now a house painter.
Officially recorded as born in Hatfield and living in Roe Green when he enlisted in Hatfield.
Wartime Service
Formerly Robert was 178397 in the Royal Field Artillery, then Liverpool Regiment no. 5334 and Border Regiment no. .33574 - Not to be confused with Robert 33755 11th Battalion, Border Regiment.
The Bishop’s Hatfield Parish Magazine of March 1917, recorded: “Wounded slightly – R. W. Moore – 1st Border Regiment.” And then in April 1918: “We regret to announce that Gunner R.W. Moore of Roe Green has been posted missing for sometime past and our sympathy goes out to his wife and all his relations in their suspense.”
Awarded the Victory Medal and British War Medal.
Additional Information
Hatfield Parish Council Souvenir Committee Ledger: Mrs Moore (Widow) c/o Mr Moore Flint Cottages, Newtown, Hatfield received an “In Memoriam and Roll of Honour Album”.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
