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Moor, E.E., Spr., 1916
In Hailly Station Cemetery, Mericourt- l'Abbe is the Commonwealth War Grave of 2501 Sapper Ernest Edwin Moor, serving with the Australian Engineers who died 07/11/1916.

Rev. David Youngson has submitted the following:

2501 Sapper Ernest Edwin MOOR

Australian Engineer 2nd Field Company

He was the son of George Harris Moor of Newcastle. An Engineer, he was Initiated into Swinburne Lodge No 2680, Old Assembly Rooms, Westgate Road, Newcastle on the 3rd December 1907; Passed 4th February 1908 and Raised on the 7th April 1908.

He died of wounds on the 7th November 1916 aged 29 and is buried in Heilly Station Cemetery, Mericourt-L’Abbe, Somme, France, Grave Reference VF17.
Editor’s Note: His age at Initiation was given as 22.


The CWGC entry for Sapper Moor

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