Name
Wilfred (William) Henry Moore
8 July 1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/08/1917
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
R/14127
King's Royal Rifle Corps
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 115 to 119
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Baldock Town Memorial, St Mary the Virgin Church Memorial, Baldock
Pre War
Wilfred Henry Moore was born in Chatteris, Cambridgeshire on 8 July 1896, the son of John William and Grace Mary Moore, and one of nine children. Wilfred was baptised on 30 April 1899 at St John's Church, Cherry Hinton, Cambs, alongside siblings Sidney, Leonard and Emma and the family address was given as 5 Marshall Road, Cherry Hinton.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 3 Marshall Road, Cherry Hinton, Cambs where his father was working as a railway clerk. By 1911 they had moved to Vincent Villas, Bygrave, Baldock, Herts. His father was then employed as a clerk to the Great Northern Railway and 14 year old Wilfred was still at school. At enlistment he gave his employment as a packer.
His parents later lived at 8 Jackson Street, Baldock.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Hitchin on 12 June 1915 and joined the King's Royal Rifles. After training he was posted to the British Expeditionary Force on 19 October 1915 and arrived in France the following day.
In February 1917 he was wounded in action and admitted to the 9th Casualty Clearing Station with a bullet wound to his buttock. He was then transferred to No. 21 Ambulance Train and admitted to the 11th General Hospital at Camines, north of Lille, prior to being sent to England on hospital ship to convalesce. He returned to France on 17 July and was killed in action on 16 August 1917, aged 21. (N.B. CWGC incorrectly gives his age as 20).
Wilfred has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium.
The Hertfordshire Express of 1 September 1917, reported his death and recorded that his parents were living at Vincent Villas. Bygrave Road, Baldock and that the news of his death had come from "his officer".
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £9 10s and pay owing of £7 4s 5d. His older brother Sidney was also killed in action in May of the same year. A pension card exists in respect of both Sidney and Wilfred but does not indicate the amount of pension paid.
N.B. At birth, Wilfred was registered as Wilfred, not William, he was also called Wilfred at baptism and on 1901 and 1911 Censuses, however his attestation form (which may not have been completed by him) gives his name as William which then lead to the incorrect first name being used on other military records.
Acknowledgments
Derry Warners, Brenda Palmer
Adrian Pitts, Paul Johnson
