Rev. W. Youngson has submitted the following:
A Mine Surveyor of Railway Street, Tow Law, he was Initiated into 3349 Tow Law Lodge on the 27th September 1911; Passed 15th November 1911 and Raised on the 20th December 1911. He was killed in action on the 27th August 1918 aged 32.
The Hartlepool Northern Daily Mail 05/09/1918 reports:-
EASINGTON. Mrs. Moore, of 3 Office Street, Easington Colliery, has received an official telegram informing her that her husband, Lieut. John William Moore, R.E. (Tunnelling Section), was killed in action by the explosion of an enemy mine August 27th last. Lieut. Moore was a member of a well known and much respected Wheatley Hill family. He commenced work at Wheatley Hill Colliery as a driver boy, but by dint of hard work and much study he qualified as a mine surveyor. After occupying a responsible post in the Gold Coast Colony for over a year, he returned to the county of Durham, and was appointed surveyor at the Weardale Coal Co.'s Tow Law collieries. He was surveyor at Easington Colliery when joined the ranks in January. 1915. He was transferred nine mouths later to the R.E. as second-lieutenant and in six months was given the rank of lieutenant. Mrs Moore, who is left with two children, has also received a deeply sympathetic letter from her husband's C.O., in which high testimony is paid to the deceased officer.
John William Moore is remembered in Easington Colliery on E52.01 and E52.03 and in the Masonic Roll of Honour
