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Moore enlisted in 5th Royal Scots Fusiliers (private 9691) at an unknown date and was gazetted probationary Second Lieutenant 19th December 1916.

He was posted to the 6/7th Battalion (45th Brigade, 15th (Scottish) Division) on 5th March 1917 and joined ‘C’ Company. The battalion was in the line near Arras but things were quiet and Moore was the first man to become a casualty in the 12 days since he joined.

29^th March 1893, Glasgow

Died of wounds.
The War Diary simply says 2/Lieut. S J Moore wounded under 17th March, and on the 18th the phrase 2/Lieut S J Moore died of wounds is squeezed in between 2 lines.

‘All that he had he gave’ was chosen by his mother to be engraved on his headstone.

Son of Mary Govine Moore, of 7, Park Circus, Ayr, and the late Andrew Moore.

Andrew Moore (c1851-1911) & Mary G Campbell (1867-1938)

Andrew Moore & Co, Muslin & Calico Printers, 67 West Nile Street, Glasgow

Mary J (1891- 1970), Jane F C (1896-1897), Andrew (c1899-1983)

Unmarried

Ayr Academy
HMS Conway, training ship 1908 (enrolled 22nd January 1908, withdrawn 27th January 1908 due to home sickness)

Clerk in stockbrokers

7 Park Circus, Ayr

7 Park Circus, Ayr

7 Park Circus, Ayr

Scottish National War Memorial

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