MOORE, Hector John
| Service Number: | 15198 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | Australian Army Ordnance Corps |
| Born: | Perth, Western Australia, 2 July 1894 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Labourer and Driver |
| Died: | Cannington, Western Australia, 22 October 1960, aged 66 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Karrakatta Cemetery & Crematorium, Western Australia https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/213703877/hector-john-moore |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| Date unknown: | Involvement Private, 15198, Australian Army Ordnance Corps |
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Born in 1894 in Perth WA, Hector was fourth of six children of Richard Charles Moore (b1867 in Dorset, England) and Mary Elizabeth Smith (b1866 in Canada). Richard (a Farm Labourer) and Mary married in 1888 in Sydney, NSW and in 1891 moved to Perth, WA with their two children. Richard and Mary settled in Perth where they raised their family and Richard worked as a Dairyman until his death by drowning in 1909.
Hector worked in Perth as a Dairyman and in 1917 was a Labourer and Driver when he enlisted in the AIF in 1917 (older brother Sydney served in WWI and WWII). In 1922 Hector was a Dairy Farmer at Kenwick nr Cannington WA when he married Ruth Hamblin Mason (b1897 in Cannington, WA). Hector and Ruth settled in Cannington where they raised their family and Hector was a Greengrocer until the late 1950s, and then a Despatch Worker. Hector died in 1960 and Ruth in 1961.