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209036Pte. Edward Thomas Moore
British Army 6th Battalion Royal Berkshire Regiment
from:Clapham, London, England
(d.19th Jul 1916)
My husband was once told by his father that his father had once had an older brother. Although we knew nothing of him as the family did not speak of him. We suspect because it was too painful to talk about. After considerable research we found out that he was named Edward and served with the 6th Battalion, Royal Berkshires
We have been told by family, now gone, that Edward was a very tall, well built young man at age 15. We believe that because of this someone gave him a white feather, supposedly thinking he was older and ought to have enlisted. He promptly did just that, presumably lying about his age, and a year later died in France, age 16 years, possibly at the Battles of Longueval and Delville Wood.
His father was in the Royal Defence Corps and was gassed and demobbed. His uncle, Joseph Edmund, who had been a regular soldier from 1897 with the Duke of Wellington's West Riding Regiment was also killed in 1916 near Ypres. We cannot begin to imagine how the families coped at this time as they were also very poor.
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