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QSA MOORE

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Group of four to Lieutenant-Colonel F. T. T. Moore, 3rd Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry, attached 7/8th Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, late Imperial Yeomanry and Indian Army
Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 2 clasps, Cape Colony, South Africa 1902 officially named to: Capt: F. T. T. Moore, Imp: Yeo:

Tibet 1903-04, 1 clasp, Gyantse officially named to: Captn. F. T. T. Moore, S. & T. Corps

British War and Victory Medals, with M.I.D. oak leaves officially named to: Lt. Col. F. T. T. Moore.

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Frederick Thornton Trevor Moore was born on 20 May 1870. He was appointed Second Lieutenant, from the Militia, in the Connnaught Rangers on 8 June 1889, and was promoted Lieutenant on 24 September 1890. He transferred to the Indian Army on 5 September 1891, and was promoted Captain, Indian Army on 8 June 1900; Captain, Imperial Yeomanry, from 11 January to 20 October 1902; and Major, Indian Army on 8 June 1907. He retired on 11 August 1911.

According to his own statement of services, Moore was Adjutant of the 4th Cavalry, Indian Army; Adjutant of the 28th Battalion Imperial Yeomanry, which he helped to raise and took it to South Africa in 1902; raised and commanded the 56th Camel Corps; commanded the 10th Mule Corps on the Tibet Expedition; and was Station Staff Officer at Jubblepore.

During the Great War he applied for and was recommended to a vacant Majority in 3rd Battalion, King’s Own Yorkshire Light Infantry. He was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel of the Battalion on 4 August 1914, and afterwards raised and commanded the 7th Service Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, and served with them for 8 months in France from 18 February 1916, until the battalion was amalgamated, being Mentioned in Sir Douglas Haig’s despatch of 7 November 1917 (London Gazette 1 January 1918). Lieutenant-Colonel Moore died at Richmond, Yorkshire, on 15 November 1925.

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Product Code: EM3629

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