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13th Battalion, Royal Irish Rifles (British Army) |
| Date Of Birth: |
01/09/1897
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| Died: |
01/07/1916 (Killed in Action) |
| Age: |
18 |
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Frederick William Moore was the son of Robert and Mary Moore. He was born in Seapatrick, County Down on 1st September 1897. The family lived in Kilpixe, Seapatrick, Banbridge. His father was a flax dresser. By 1911, his mother had died and Fred was working as a draper’s apprentice for Menary Brothers in Dungannon. Rifleman Moore trained as a signaller before going to France in 1915. Rifleman Fred Moore was serving with ‘D’ Company of the 13th Battalion of the Royal Irish Rifles when he was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme on 1st July 1916.
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The Thiepval Memorial will be found on the D73, next to the village of Thiepval, off the main Bapaume to Albert road (D929). Each year a major ceremony is held at the memorial on 1 July. The Thiepval Memorial to the Missing of the Somme is a war memorial to 72,337 missing British and South African servicemen who died in the Battles of the Somme of the First World War between 1915 and 1918, with no known grave. It is near the village of Thiepval, Picardy in France. Designed by Sir Edwin Lutyens, Thiepval has been described as "the greatest executed British work of monumental architecture of the twentieth century"
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