Name
Ellis Sard Moore
21 July 1881
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
25/07/1917
36
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Bombardier
11087
Royal Horse Artillery and Royal Field Artillery
70th Battery, 34 Brigade
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VLAMERTINGHE NEW MILITARY CEMETERY
VIII. B. 2
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Digswell memorials, Not on the Welwyn memorials
Pre War
Ellis Sard Moore was born in at Digswell Water, Welwyn, Herts on 21 July 1881, the son of John Sard Moore and Mary Ann Moore and baptised at Digswell on 28 August 1881. The family were living at 13 Hertford Road, Edmonton in 1891 where his father was a grocer. He was educated at Latymer Council School, Edmonton.
He enlisted into the army in 1900 and served several years with the colours and was put on Reserve.
He married Florence Cooper on 23 August 1908 at Chalfont St Giles, Bucks and on the 1911 Census, he was living with his wife Florence, children Thomas and John and mother in law Emma Cooper at 2A Sunnyside Road South, Lower Edmonton, Middlesex and working as a House Porter. They later had two further children, Florence and Evelyn, but his wife died on 16 September 1917.
Wartime Service
As a Reserve soldier, Ellis was called up at the outbreak of war in August 1914 and served with the Royal Field Artillery, 70th Battery, 34th Brigade, in France from 16 August 1914.
He was killed in action on 25 July 1917, aged 36, along with three others, by a shell that fell in their gun position between the Ypres Canal and village of Brielen, Flanders.
He is buried in Vlamertinghe New Military Cemetery, Belgium.
Additional Information
His mother in law Emma Cooper received a war gratuity of £18 and pay owing of £29 9s 5d for his 'children and funeral expenses.'
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
www.inmemories.com/Cemeteries/vlamertinghenew.htm
