"TO BE HONEST, TO BE KIND, TO MAKE OTHERS HAPPIER FOR HIS PRESENCE"
Served with the 1st Corps Field Park Coy and 9th Canadian Field Park Coy.
Qualified Driver Class 3 on June 19, 1943.
Assigned to the 7th Field Company, Royal Canadian Engineers on March 20, 1944.
Wounded on September 7, 1944. Died as a result of a shell fragment to the head.
The 7th Field Company, RCE war diary reports on september 7, 1944:
1. Very wet weather, and cold.
2. The Platoons started work again, 1 Platoon built a C1 40 bridge at MR078750 (Chemin de Bac de la Target, North of Le Guindal, France). While 2 and 3 Platoons carried on with checking and clearing mines on CLUB route.
3. The Division Brigade Platoon is under our command as wel as 6 tippers. The general area is extremely flat and the Hun (very likely a word for Germans) has attempted to flood it but not very successfully.
Brothers in the Army:
Robert W. Moore - Royal Canadian Army Medical Corps
Walter T. Moore - Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Gerald W. Moore - Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Charlie T. Moore - Anti-Tank Regt
Arthur F. Moore - Royal Canadian Air Force
Flight Sergeant R/140577 Arthur Frankland Moore (age 24) 172 R.A.F. Squadron was killed in action on February 19, 1944. The aircraft was lost while doing Night-Navigation practice over the sea. No survivors. Possible pilot error. Body lost at sea. Remembered on panel 252 at Runnymede memorial, Surrey, United Kingdom.
