Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of George Moore, a coal miner, hewer, born on the 28th April 1869 in Barwell, Leicestershire (son of Arthur Moore, 1847-1913 and Selina Spence, 1849-1887) and his wife Annie Moore (nee Wood, married on the 25th November 1888 in St. Mary’s Church, Barwell) born 1866 in Wilnecote, Warwickshire (daughter of Samuel Wood). Harry Wood was born on the 8th November 1892 in Barwell and baptised on the 25th December 1892 in the Parish Church of Wilnecote and Castle Liberty, Warwickshire, his siblings were, Amelia, born in the July quarter of 1889 and baptised on the 21st July 1889 in St. Mary’s Church, Barwell and George Edgar, born in the July quarter of 1897, the latter two siblings were both born in Barwell and Selina Carrie, born on the 11th June 1900 in Wilnecote, in March 1901 the family home was at Payne’s Yard, Long Street, Atherstone, Warwickshire. In April 1911 Harry was an Army Private and was residing as a visitor in the family home of George Henry Moore, a shoe trade finisher, born 1886 in Hinckley, Leicestershire and his wife Sarah Moore, born 1885 in Warwickshire, and their children, Ada Elizabeth, born 1908 and Winifred Elsie, born 1911, both children were born in Stapleton. Harry’s mother died in the July quarter of 1913 in Hinckley, aged 46. Harry’s father married Mabel Annie Holmes on the 15th May 1915 in the Church of St. Mary in the Elms, Woodhouse, Leicestershire.
Harry’s army service enlistment documents do not survive, therefore the currently available information pertaining to his military service has been obtained from the following sources: - 1921 HMSO Publication, Soldiers Died in the Great War, 1914 - 1919, WW1 Service Medal and Award Rolls, Army Registers of Soldiers’ Effects, WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards, WW1 Pension Ledgers and Index Cards and the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Registers.
Enlisted/Attested in Warwick. Date not known. Circa 1910.
Allotted. Service number. 1401.
Posted. To 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment. Private.
First entered the theatre of war in Zeebrugge, Belgium on the 4th October 1914.
Admitted. To 2nd General Hospital on the 17th March 1915 suffering from cystitis.
Discharged. To O.C. Reinforcements on the 23rd March 1915.
Returned. To duty with 2nd Battalion Royal Warwickshire Regiment “C” Company. Date not known.
Promoted. Acting Corporal, date not known.
Killed in action on the 25th September 1915.
Body not recovered. Commemorated on the Loos Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
Awarded the 1914 Star with Clasp & Rose, British War Medal and Victory Medal.
His sister Amelia Hall was nominated by Harry to be his sole legatee. She also applied for an Army Pension, but no details are available, except for the claimant’s details, given as Mrs. Amelia Hall, 5, Cromwell Street, Leicester.
The War Diary records: 25 Sep-15 -In the Trenches. 5.50am. Our bombardment ceased. Our advance commenced at 6.20am. Took German front line trench then support trench then on to the QUARRIES as far as ST. ELIE. Captured about 60 prisoners; arrived at this position at 9.30am. Kept to it till after dark when we had to retire owing to the 9th Division on our left retiring. Occupied QUARRIES until midnight when we took up a position in the support trench 400 yards West of the QUARRIES. Up to this time the following officers were killed Lieutenant Colonel B. P. LEFROY, DSO (Died of wounds). Captain N. H. L. MATEAR, Lieutenant F. R. ELDERTON, Lieutenant H. E. EDWARDS, Lieutenant J. PENNINGTON, Lieutenant J. L. O. MANSERGH, Lieutenant K. M. GAUNT, Lieutenant T. E. NEWSOME. Missing 2nd Lieutenant P. H. W. HERBAGE. Wounded Lieutenant Colonel B. P. LEFROY, DSO, Captain J. P. DUKE, Captain J R. SWINHOE, Captain J. S. KNYVETT, Lieutenant R. F. RICHARDSON, 2nd Lieutenant B. G. HILL, 2nd Lieutenant S. W. W. CANNON, 2nd Lieutenant N. ALLEN, 2nd Lieutenant E. W. BLENKINSOP, 2nd Lieutenant P. H. TURNER.
Other ranks. Killed 64. Wounded 171. Missing 273.
The Battalion could only muster officer and 140 men.
On Friday, November 5th, 1915, The Leicester Daily Post published the following article under the heading. FALLEN LEICESTERS. - (A photograph accompanied the article). – Acting-Corpl. H. MOORE, 2nd Royal Warwick’s, a native of Barwell, who lived with his mother in Dead-lane, Loughborough.