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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 575

'His Company were storming a wood which the stubbornly enemy held, and Moore, at the forefront of the fight with no cover whatever, remained at his gun until it was red hot, firing round after round into the enemy forces. This example of soul [SIC] bravery rallied the others and at the most critical moment, and there is no doubt that had he been spared, he would have received high decoration, but at the summit of his success, when this brave boy had achieved an almost superhuman act, he was hit with bullet and died instantly'

Barry Dock News, 1 November 1918, refers

Three: Private S. G. Moore, 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers, who was killed in action at the head of his Company on 15 October 1918

British War and Victory Medals (48962 Pte. S. G. Moore. S. Wales Bord.); Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque (Samuel Gordon Moore), good very fine (3)

Samuel Gordon Moore was born at Penarth, Glamorgan, the son of Mr and Mrs S. Moore of Tydfil-Street, Barry Dock. Enlisting at Barry Dock Moore entered the war with 2nd Battalion, South Wales Borderers only to be killed in action on 15 October 1918. He is buried at Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Mooreslede; sold together with copied research including an extract from The Barry Dock News, Commonwealth War Graves details and extracts from the Battalion War Diary.

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