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Driver

George Albert Moore

Service number T/145622
Military unit 13 Troop Carrying Coy Royal Army Service Corps
Address 10 Meden Avenue, Warsop.
Date of birth 11 Feb 1918
Date of death 24 May 1940 (22 years old)
Place of birth Warsop, Nottinghamshire
Employment, education or hobbies

Colliery Worker, above ground (banksman) at Welbeck Colliery.
A member of the church choir.

Family history

Son of Albert and Lilian Moore of 10 Meden Avenue, Warsop.
Siblings: Nellie (1912), Florence (1914), Frederick (1919), Joyce (1925) and Ronald (1927).

Military history

Mansfield Chronicle Advertiser: 27/5/1943: Killed in Action.
Mt & Mrs Moore of 10 Meden Avenue, Warsop have only just received news that their son, who was posted missing in May 1940 that he was killed in action on May 24th 1940.
Driver Moore belonged to RASC prior to joining the army he worked at Welbeck Colliery. He was a member of the parish church choir.

Extra information

George is remebered on the Dunkirk Memorial so he was probably killed during the retreat to Dunkirk.
3 other men from the Warsop area died during the evacuation of Dunkirk, Frederick Freeman, Stanley Jones and Joseph Preston.

Photographs

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