MOORE, Horace

Horace Moore was born in 1897 and was one of a large family of six brothers and two sisters who by 1914 were living at 45 King Street, Wollaston. He enlisted in the Royal Engineers and was transferred to the West Yorkshire Regiment and then to the 2/4th Battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. As part of the 62nd Division they were involved in the Advance to Victory from the Somme to the Armistice. On the 21st August they attacked on the old Somme battlefield at Grandcourt and forced the German forces into a long retreat to the Hindenburg Line. On the 27th the Division took part in the first major assault on these massive fortifications. They attacked at dawn on the 28th and captured the highly defended village of Marcoing. Casualties, however, included Private Horace Moore who was killed in action. He was 21 years of age and is buried in Flesquieres Hill British Cemetery (III D 13) and commemorated on the Stourbridge and Wollaston church Memorials, together with his brother Harry who died in 1919.