MOOR, Hatherly George
| Service Number: | Officer |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Major |
| Last Unit: | 1st Western Australian Mounted Infantry |
| Born: | Canterbury, United Kingdom, 12 July 1871 |
| Home Town: | Albany, Albany, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Shrewbury School , Trinity College & Cambridge University |
| Occupation: | Soldier |
| Died: | Killed In Action, Palmeitfontein, South Africa, 19 July 1900, aged 29 years |
| Cemetery: |
Lindley Garden of Remembrance, South Africa |
| Memorials: | Albany St. John's Anglican Church Major Hatheley Moor Memorial Tablet, WA Kings Park Boer War Memorial |
Boer War Service
| 1 Oct 1899: | Involvement Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Major, Officer | |
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| 7 Nov 1899: | Embarked Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Medic | |
| 19 Jul 1900: | Discharged Australian and Colonial Military Forces - Boer War Contingents, Major, 1st Western Australian Mounted Infantry, K.I.A. |
Additional information
ANGLO-BOER WAR RECORDS 1899-1902
First Names- Hatherly George
Last Name - Moor
Age - 29
Rank - Major
Regiment - West Australian Mounted Infantry, Royal Garrison Regiment
Notes - Anglo Boer War Memorial Project
Memorials - St. James Park north-east corner. Memorial. Royal Artillery. The Mall, LONDON, England
St. Clement. Tablet. Major H G Moor RA. St. Clement, CORNWALL, England
Cathedral. South-west Tower. Memorial. Duke of Cornwall's LI & County. Truro, CORNWALL, England
West Australian Contingents. Monument. Kings Park. Perth, WESTERN AUSTRALIA, Australia
Casualty units - Royal Garrison Regiment
West Australian Mounted Infantry
Casualty details - Killed on 19 July, 1900 at Palmietfontein (9) (Official casualty roll location: Palmietfontein)
Casualty source - Anglo-Boer War Memorials Project
Country - Great Britain
Record set - Anglo-Boer War records 1899-1902
Category - Military, armed forces and conflict
Subcategory - Boer Wars
Collections from - Great Britain
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Cambridge University Alumni & UK Casualties of the Boer War
Name: Hatherley George. Moor
College: TRINITY
Entered: Michs. 1888
BORN: 1871
More Information:
Adm. pens. at TRINITY, May 21, 1888. S. of [the Rev.] Allen Page (1842), of St Clement,Truro. B. [July 12], 1871, at Canterbury. School, Shrewsbury. Matric. Michs. 1888. At the Royal Military Academy, Woolwich. Lieut., Suffolk Artillery Militia, 1890; Second Lieut.,R.A., 1890; Lieut., 1893; Capt., 1899. Served in Mashonaland rebellion of 1896-7(despatches).
In the S. African War, 1899-1900 (Commandant of the Western. Australian Contingent; mentioned in despatches for service at Slingersfontein (Feb. 1900) and Vetriver); killed at Palmietfontein, July 19, 1900. Brother of Cresacre G. (1884). (Army Lists;Shrewsbury Sch. Reg.)
Capt. Hatherly George Moor, Royal Garrison Artillery, was killed in action at
Palmietfontein, July 19th, 1900. The younger son of the Rev. Canon Moor, of St. Clement's,Truro, he was born in July, 1871, and educated at Shrewsbury School. He entered the Royal Artillery- from the Militia, Nov., 1890, was promoted Lieutenant. Nov., 1893, and Captain. Oct., 1899.
He was employed with the Colonial Forces in West Australia since July 14th, 1899,commanding the Permanent Garrison, Albany.
Capt. Moor had previously served in South Africa in the operations in 1897, and was then specially employed with the British South African Police. He was mentioned in
despatches, L.G., Feb. 18th, 1898, and was granted the medal. In June, 1899, he was appointed to command the Permanent Garrison at King George's Sound, West Australia with the local rank of Major, and on the outbreak of the war was given the command of theWest Australian contingent.
At Slingersfontein, Feb. 9th, he narrowly escaped being killed through assisting a wounded man and giving him his horse. He was mentioned in the despatch of F.-M. Earl Roberts, March 1st, 1902.
On the right side of the memorial window placed in the chapel of Shrewsbury School in remembrance of fourteen Salopians who fell in South Africa, is depicted a realistic scene from the Boer War. In this representation Capt. Moor is shown defending a kopje near Colesberg. On the occasion referred to, he, with his West Australians, held his position against great odds, for which service he was afterwards publicly thanked by the general officer commanding his division.
Submitted 1 June 2015 by Elizabeth Allen
Biography
Hatterly George MOOR was born on 12th July, 1871 Canterbury, England
His parents were (Reverend - Canon) Allen Page MOOR and Eliza Harriet WRAY
His father was a Vicar at St Clements, Truro, Cornwall UK
He joined 1st Western Australia Mounted Infantry of which he was one of the Commanding Officers which left Albany, WA on 7th November 1899 for South Africa on the ship Medic
Origianl strength was 130 men .They saw service from Nov. 1899 to October 1900 in northern Cape Colony including defence of Australian Hill (9th feb. 1900) Free State & Transvaal including the battle of Diamond Hill
Five were killed or died of wounds including MOOR and one died of disease
They returned to Australia on 29th Dec. 1900 on ship Orient
He first joined the Royal Artillery Officers from Artillery Militia (date not known ) but sometime between 1888 and 1889 . Made 2nd Lieutenant 1st Nov 1890 and Lieutenant on 1st Nov. 1893
Hatherly George MOOR, Major Captain in Royal Artillery served in Rhodesian Campaign in 1897, Promoted to Major on 14th Oct. 1899. Killed in action at Palmierfontein on 19th July, 1900
He died at Palmietfontein on 19th July, 1899 (see attached links for more information about his death & cemetery /burial details
FURTHER INFORMATION on his family including photo
http://www.bwm.org.au/site/Hatherley_Moor.asp (www.bwm.org.au)
PHOTO OF HIS PLAQUE
https://www.awm.gov.au/collection/P05558.001 (www.awm.gov.au)
BIOGRAPHY and PHOTO
http://www.hagsoc.org.au/sagraves/bios/moor.php (www.hagsoc.org.au)
STORY OF HIS DEATH
PHOTO OF HIS GRAVESTONE
http://www.eggsa.org/library/main.php?g2_itemId=2730083 (www.eggsa.org)
"...Major Hatherly George Moor, 1st Mounted Infantry, West Australia, who was killed in action on 19 July 1900 at Palmeitfontein. ... A former Captain with the Royal Artillery, he led the first West Australian contingent to South Africa, having recently been promoted to the rank of Major. In 1886 he was a member of the Albany Defence Rifles. In the intervening years he had five years' service in Natal with a mountain battery, and in 1897 he served in Rhode's British Charted Company, in Rhodesia and saw action in the war against the Matabele in 1897. Back in Australia, in 1899 he was instrumental in proposing a Volunteer Artillery Corps at Albany. On 7 November 1899, the Western Australian infantry company of 130 officers, non commissioned officers and men, under the command of Major Moor, left Albany on the Medic , arriving in Cape Town on 27 November. The unit was engaged in Transvaal and the Orange Free State." - SOURCE (www.awm.gov.au)
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