Photo: Dorothy Hall
Volunteer
A.C. Mooney
14th Durham Bn.
Home Guard
18th August 1940
On whose soul
Sweet Jesus have Mercy
Husband of Anne Mooney, of West Rainton.
The Sunderland Echo 20/08/1940 reports:-
HOME GUARD'S DEATH Death from heart failure brought on by exercise and training on the rifle range as a member of the Home Guard was the verdict returned by Coroner W Patterson at an inquest in Whitburn last night on Alexander Charles Mooney (66) of School Avenue, West Rainton It was stated that after firing his course at the range on Sunday morning. Mooney ran to catch a bus. but after asking a friend whether he had hit the target he collapsed and died
Alexander Charles Mooney is remembered at West Rainton on W113.02
