Wilfred was born in Leyton and baptised on 29th May 1892. He attended Ilford County High school. He left school, aged 14 in 1905. He became a Civil Service Clerk (2nd Division) working for the Board of Education.
He was the second son of Robert and Charlotte Moore. His four siblings were Robert, Ada, Edith and Charlotte Marguerite. His family lived 97 Pembroke Road and his father worked as a draughtsman. However, his father was also an illustrator and artist. By 1911, the family had moved to 71 Elgin Road in Seven Kings.
Wilfred served as a Sergeant in the Prince of Wales’ Own Civil Service Rifles (a section of the London Regiment). His service number was 530032. He was a signalling sergeant and one of the few original members of his battalion, who had embarked for France on 17th March 1915, to survive to 1918. By the Spring of 1918, he was considered a mature NCO and was involved in training the new recruits to the battalion. He died on Sunday 1st September 1918, aged 27. Colonel Feilding described in a letter to his wife how a shell crashed down outside his dugout, killing and wounding several including Moore and the battalion’s American medical officer. His body was buried in Peronne Road Cemetery, Maricourt (Grave IV. A. 4). Sadly, his brother, Robert Frank Moore was also killed in the war. Thus, his parents lost both of their sons during the war. His father died shortly afterwards (in December 1920).
Research by Andrew Emeny, History Teacher at ICHS
Sources:
Ancestry.com
ICHS school records and magazines
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Note
Ilford County High School started life as the Park Higher Grade School in 1901 in Balfour Road, Ilford. It was renamed Ilford County High School (or initially County High School, Ilford) in the years after the school’s management was transferred from Ilford School Board to Essex Education Committee in 1904.