LEATHERHEAD WAR MEMORIALS - WWI
Corporal Henry B Moore
2nd Bn King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Town Memorial P5.R4.C2
Taken, Not Given, Liam Sumption, L&DLHS
Cpl
Henry B Moore
2nd K.O.
Yorkshire LI
Germany
Nov 15 1918 [sic]
The 2nd. Bn. K.O.Y.L.I. [Kings Own Yorkshire Light Infantry] entrained
at Namur 1st February 1919 for occupation duties in Germany and arrived
the next day at Beveul for Siegeburg-Mullforf.
On 16 November 1918, the day of Henry Moore's death, they [were] at at
Avesnes in France, and in the morning were paraded to receive medal
ribbons and in the words of their War Diary (1) "in the afternoon
recreational training was carried".
Therefore, if he died in Germany on 16th November (2) he may have been a
prisoner of war awaiting repatriation - a sad fate.
The records (2) give his full name as Henry Baker [Moore] and state that
he was born in Reading and enlisted in London.
He was an acting-Corporal and his regimental number was No.88095 [sic].
Notes on sources
1. File W095-2402 War Diary 2nd. Bn. cond Battalion coyly Public record
office
2. Soldiers Who Died in the Great War (K.O.Y.L.I.), Imperial War Museum,
Lambeth
Further research
Corporal
MOORE, H B
Service Number 8895
Died 16/11/1918
2nd Bn. King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry
Husband of E. F. Moore, of 1A, Bridge Square, Farnham, Surrey.
Buried at POZNAN
OLD GARRISON CEMETERY
Location: Poland
Cemetery/memorial reference: I. A. 6.
It is not known when or where he was taken prisoner or the cause of his death in captivity, which was five days after the Armistice.
Poznan Old Garrison Cemetery
After the First World War, the graves of Commonwealth servicemen who had died in Poland as prisoners of war were gathered together in this cemetery. There are now 174 Commonwealth servicemen of the First World War buried or commemorated in the cemetery. The majority of the 283 Second World War burials in the cemetery are those of airmen, many of whom died in bombing operations on Stettin (now Szeczin). Also buried here are those involved in the mass escape from Stalag Luft 3, Sagan (now Zagan), in March 1944, and others who died while prisoners of war during the German occupation, at Stalag VIIIC, Sagan, Stalag XXID at Poznan, Oflag XXIB (also known as Oflag 64) and Stalag XXIB, both at Schubin (now Szubin).