Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Cecil was the second son of George and Georgina Ellen Moffatt, of Westfield, Ellesmere Park, Eccles, Manchester, and the grandson of Mr George Black, Ahascragh, Co. Galway. He was killed on August 1st, 1916, on his 20th birthday. He, with his elder brother (Stanley Leslie Moffatt), joined the army at the outbreak of the war and were subsequently given commissions in the 2nd Lancashire Fusiliers. They went to France in November 1915 and were both killed in action.
Date of publication, Friday September 29, 1916
Source and photograph courtesy: http://ourheroes.southdublinlibraries.ie/node/16935

The following note appeared in the Belfast News Letter, Friday 25 August 1916:

Lieutenant SL Moffatt and Second-Lieutenant CH Moffatt, both of the Lancashire Fusiliers, killed during the present month, were nephews of Mr Robert Moffatt, Bawnmore Road and Textile Buildings, Belfast. Their father, Mr George Moffatt, of Westfield, Ellesmere Park, Eccles, is a director of the firm of Mitchell & Berry Ltd, Old Change, London. Lieutenant SL Moffatt, the elder of the brothers, was killed in action on 13th inst. and Second Lieutenant CH Moffatt, the younger, was accidentally killed in the reserve trenches on his birthday, 1st inst., by the discharge of a rifle which a soldier was cleaning.
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Sources: B Hakewill and P. Perkins, 2018