Corporal John Henry Moore (7011035) served in 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles during the Second World War. Born on 21st July 1914, he was the son of Joseph Moore and Teresa Moore (née Higgins) of 53 Spring Terrace, South Rawtenstall, Lancashire. Joseph and Teresa were originally from Co. Fermanagh.
After The Great War, Joseph Henry received a medical discharge and returned to Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh where John’s siblings Teresa Moore and James Brendan Moore were born. On 26th December 1936, John Henry Moore married Doris Jane Thompson in Strood, Kent.
Corporal Moore died on 14th May 1940 aged 25 years old. At the time, A Company, 2nd Battalion Royal Ulster Rifles was in action at Louvain as the British Expeditionary Force began the withdrawal to Dunkirk. ‘The Rifles Are There’ by David Orr and David Truesdale states that Moore was the Non-Commissioned Officer killed in an explosion on this date. A Belgian ammunition lorry left the road in A Company’s sector and ran into a small anti-tank minefield. Another 5 Riflemen sustained injuries as a result of the incident.
John Henry Moore’s grave is in Row B, Grave 10 of Leuven Communal Cemetery, Vlaams-Brabant, Belgium.