Name
Richard Henry Trim Moore
1895
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
30/04/1915
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Rifleman
9432
London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade)
1st/5th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star, British War and Victory Medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
YPRES (MENIN GATE) MEMORIAL
Panel 52 and 54.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
St Botolph's Church Memorial, Shenleybury (now lost) (*1), Plaque, St Michael and All Angels Church, Wood Green, Wood Green Memorial, London
Pre War
Richard Henry Trim Moore was born in Edmonton, Middlesex in 1895, the son of Sidney Herbert and Victoria Moore and one of four children. He was baptised on 20 April 1900 at St Michael's Church, Wood Green, Haringey, Middlesex at the same time as his brother John Joseph. The family were then living at 43 Park Avenue, Wood Green, London and his father was a schoolmaster.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at the same address given at the baptism and his father was listed as the principal of a private school working on his own account. Richard had two older brothers, Sidney and Frederick as well as younger brother John. They remained in Wood Green in 1911 and Richard was then working as an insurance clerk.
Wartime Service
His service number of 9432 and the fact that he went to France as early as 4 November 1914 suggests that he had previously been a member of the 1st Volunteer Rifle Corps, later changed to the 5th (City of London) Battalion, also known as the 1st/5th London Regiment (London Rifle Brigade).
Richard was killed in action at Fortuin, Belgium, on 30 April 1915 aged 19. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Belgium.
Additional Information
*1 Believed named on the lost memorial.
His father received a war gratuity of £3 and pay owing of £4 4s 9d. He also obtained probate of his son's estate on 13 August 1915 in London with effects of £5 6s 2d.
His brother, Sidney Arthur Moore, died of wounds on 8 May 1915. Pension cards exist in relation to Richard and his brother Sidney but give no indication if any pension was paid.
Richard and his brother Sidney are also commemorated on the family headstone in Shenley (St. Botolph) Churchyard, Shenleybury. Their inscription reads:
AND THEIR [Sidney Herbert and Victoria Moore ] ELDEST SON SIDNEY ARTHUR AND THIRD SON RICHARD HENRY TRIM
BOTH KILLED IN ACTION IN FLANDERS APRIL 1915 AND BURIED THERE.
“REST IN PEACE”
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, iwm.org.uk
