Name
Thomas Henry Moore
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
31/07/1917
29
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
268053
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 54 and 56.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Watford Borough Roll of Honour,
Watford Printers Memorial, Watford,
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford
Pre War
Son of the late Edwin James and Alice (nee STOCKHAM) MOORE; husband of Edith (nee KING) MOORE.
His parents married 1876 in the Kensington, London, district. Edwin possibly died 1910 in the Islington, London, district aged 64; Alice died 1912 in Watford aged 64, and was buried 2 October in Vicarage Road Cemetery, Watford.
Thomas was born 8 February 1888 in Kensington or Bayswater, London, and baptised 6 May 1888 at All Saints, Notting Hill, London. He married 14 December 1912 at St Mary’s, Watford; they had one child. He resided in Watford. Edith remarried 1925 in the Watford district to James C BACKLER, who died 1930 in the Watford district aged 44. Edith married for the third time 1931 in the Watford district to John PALMER, she died 13 February 1972 in Watford aged 86, and was buried 25 February in Vicarage Road Cemetery.
On the 1891 Census, he lived in Kensington, with his parents and no siblings. On the 1901 Census, aged 13 he lived in Clerkenwell, London, with his parents and no siblings. On the 1911 Census, a printer platon hand aged 23, he lived in Watford, with his widowed mother and no siblings.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Watford, and was formerly Private 80063 Royal Army Medical Corps and Private 7954 Hertfordshire Regiment. He was entitled to the Victory and British War medals, and was killed in action.
Additional Information
There is an article about and a Death announcement for Thomas in the West Herts and Watford Observer dated 25 May 1918; plus In Memoriams in the issues dated 3 August 1918 and 2 August 1919.
Unfortunately, Thomas’ Service Record appears to be one that did not survive the World War Two bombing.
Acknowledgments
Sue Carter (Research) and Watford Museum (ROH on line via www.ourwatfordhistory.org.uk)
