Today | News | Books | Recipes Adventure | Science Fiction | Ghost stories | Poetry | Children | History Booke; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =MONTGOMERY, ADAM=, Private, No. 20231, 2/5th Battn. Royal Scots (T.F.), 3rd _s._ of the late William Montgomery, of Possilpark, Glasgow, Road Surfaceman in the employ of the Glasgow Corporation, by his wife, Margaret (378, Garscube Road, Glasgow), dau. of Gilbert Connell; _b._ Dunoon, co. Argyle, 15 July, 1884; educ. Dunoon Grammar School, was a Plumber in the employ of R. Munro & Son, Springburn; enlisted 25 Jan. 1915; joined at Glencorse Barracks on Monday the 29th; was sent to Weymouth the following Wednesday for training; crossed to France, 1 May; was wounded in action on the 16th of that month and invalided into hospital; discharged from there 21st and was back in the firing line on the 23rd, and was killed in action at Ypres, 26 May, 1915; _unm._ [Illustration: =Adam Montgomery.=] =MONTGOMERY, SIDNEY GEORGE=, Signaller, No. 9857, 6th (Service) Battn. Lincolnshire Regt., _s._ of George Montgomery, formerly of the 2nd Battn. of that Regt., by his wife, Annie, dau. of George Grundy, of Lincoln, Machine Fitter; _b._ Lincoln, 5 June, 1893; educ. St. Martin's School there; was a Clerk in Messrs. Dawson's Leather Works at Lincoln, but enlisted on the outbreak of war, and was killed in action at Suvla Bay, Gallipoli, 7 Aug. 1915; _unm._ =MONTGOMERY, WILLIAM SPROAT=, Capt., 6th (Rifle) Battn. King's Liverpool Regt. (T.F.), yr. _s._ of Hugh Montgomery, of The Allports, Bromborough, Cheshire, member of the firm of Simmonds, Hunt & Montgomery, of Liverpool; _b._ Liverpool, 25 May, 1881; educ. Liverpool College. He had joined the 6th (Territorial) Battn. of the King's Liverpool Regt., 14 March, 1909, and on the outbreak of war volunteered for foreign service. He passed the School of Instruction and obtained his company, 8 Sept. 1914, and went to France, 22 Feb. 1915. He was killed in action at Ypres, 13 March, 1915; _unm._ He was a well-known Rugby football player, and played for his county of Lancashire and the Liverpool Rugby Football Club, which he captained in the season of 1908-9 and in which for several years he held the post of Secretary. He was also a member of the Racquet and the Royal Liverpool Clubs. It was said of him: "In business life and in private life, as well as in the battn. of which he was a member, Capt. Montgomery was _persona grata_ to all with whom he came in contact." [Illustration: =William S. Montgomery.=] =PIGOT-MOODIE, CHARLES ALFRED=, 2nd Lieut., 6th Battn. Rifle Brigade, yst. _s._ of the late George Pigot-Moodie, of Westbrooke, Rondebosch, Cape Colony; M.L.C. of Cape Colony, and sometime Surveyor-General of the Transvaal, by his wife, Rose, dau. of Stephen Spranger, F.R.C.S. Eng., and gdson. of Lieut. Donald Moodie, R.N. Colonial Secretary of Natal (1845-49), and Speaker of the Legislative Assembly (1857) [3rd _s._ of Major James Moodie, 9th Laird of Melsetter, Orkney]; _b._ Westbrooke, 30 May, 1890; educ. Windlesham House, Brighton, Harrow and Magdalen College, Oxford; gazetted 2nd Lieut. 15 Aug. 1914; went to the Front, Nov. 1914, and was killed in action at Kemmel, Belgium, 13 Jan. 1915; _unm._ His elder brother, Lieut. George Frederick Arthur Pigot-Moodie, 2nd Dragoons (Scots Greys), is now on active service in France. He was wounded on 12 Sept. 1914, at Vailly, during the Battle of the Aisne, and was awarded the Military Cross, and the 3rd class Order of St. Anne of Russia (with swords). [Illustration: =C. A. Pigot-Moodie.=] =MOODY, FREDERICK WILLIAM=, Chief Armourer (Pensioner), 154309, H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914 =MOODY, ROBERT RONALD=, Boy, 1st Class, J. 24634 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914. =MOOR, CHRISTOPHER=, 2nd Lieut., 2nd Battn. Hampshire Regt., eldest _s._ of the Rev. Charles Moor, D.D., sometime Vicar of Barton-on-Humber and of Gainsborough and Canon of Lincoln, by his wife, Constance Mary, dau. of Robert Moon, M.A., Barrister-at-Law; _b._ at Barton-on-Humber, 2 Feb. 1892; educ. at Abbotsholme, at Bradfield. and at Pembroke College, Cambridge, where he took his degree with honours in Mechanical Science, afterwards taking a post-graduate course at McGill University, Montreal. He was gazetted to the 3rd Battn. Hants Regt., 15 Aug. 1914, and was afterwards transferred to the 2nd Battn. and sent to Gallipoli in May, 1915. After being invalided to Egypt, he returned to the front in July and took part in a very gallant charge at Krithia on 6 Aug. 1915, when he was one of the few to reach the Turkish trench, where he fell on the parapet, shot through the heart. He had given early promise of distinction in various fields of human culture and was a keen student of engineering, of architecture and of literature. He taught himself to read hieroglyphic writing and had compiled for his own use a vocabulary of ancient Egyptian words and was deeply interested in the history of Egypt. In his short military career he had trained the signaller of several battns. and was regarded as an extremely keen and promising officer [Illustration: =Christopher Moor.=] =MOORE, ALFRED=, L.-Corpl., R.M.L.I., Ch./10271, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =MOORE, ANTHONY=, Stoker, 1st Class, K. 13950 (Ports.), H.M.S. Hogue; lost in action in the North Sea, 22 Sept. 1914. =MOORE, ARTHUR=, Private, No. 1990, 5th Battn. Australian Expeditionary Force; _s._ of Henry Albert Moore, of Park House, Whatley, near Frome, Somerset, by his wife, Elizabeth Thurzia, dau. of James Burge Whatley; _b._ 9 April, 1879; educ. Warminster Grammar School; went to Australia in 1900, and settled at Melbourne and Sydney; enlisted at Melbourne in Feb. 1915; was wounded at the Dardanelles, 7 Aug. 1915, and invalided home to England, and died in King George's Hospital, 29 Feb. 1916; _unm._ [Illustration: =Arthur Moore.=] =MOORE, CHARLES JAMES=, Private, No. 1772, 7th Battn. London Regt. (T.F.), _s._ of Francis Moore, of Nile Street, St. Luke's, Picture Framer, by his wife, Amelia, dau. of Thomas Richard (and Elizabeth) Wells; _b._ St. Luke's, London, 13 Dec. 1888; educ. Old Street Parochial School there; and on leaving school entered the employ of Messrs. Badcock, Golden Lane, City, Tailor, for whom he worked as a cutter for fifteen years. He joined the 7th London on 6 Aug. 1914, two days after war broke out; went to France 17 Feb. 1915, and died in hospital at Bethune, 17 May, 1915, of wounds received in action on the 14th. Buried in Bethune Cemetery; _unm._ =MOORE, FREDERICK=, Petty Officer, 1st Class, 177856, H.M.S. Hawke; lost when that ship was torpedoed in the North Sea, 15 Oct. 1914; _m._ =MOORE, GEORGE=, A.B., J. 5422, H.M.S. Good Hope; lost in action off Coronel, on the coast of Chili, 1 Nov. 1914. =MOORE, HENRY GLANVILLE ALLEN=, Lieut.-Col., 6th (Service) Battn. East Yorkshire Regt. (Pioneers), only _s._ of the late Rev. Henry Dawson Moore, Vicar of Misterton, 1858-80, |