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Private Douglas Haig Moore

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Military service

Service number: H/6371
Age: 25
Rank: Private
Force: Army
Unit/Regiment: Winnipeg Grenadiers, R.C.I.C.
Birth: March 22, 1917 Elgin, Manitoba
Enlistment: September 15, 1939 Winnipeg, Manitoba
Death: September 18, 1942

Burial/memorial information

Grave reference: VIII. D. 15.
Additional information
Son of Wilson Moore and Elizabeth Neill. Husband of Johanna Petronella Bais, of Winnipeg, Manitoba.

Brother of Private Wilson Moore, regimental number 859472, 43rd Battalion (Manitoba Regiment) Canadian Expeditionary Force, killed in action at Vimy, France, April 17th, 1917.

Served in Manitoba, Bermuda with B Force, Jamaica with Y Force, Hong Kont with C Force. He had 1,100 days of service, including 326 overseas.

To commemorate his sacrifice, the Manitoba government named Moore Point located on Utik Lake in his honor in 1995.

Additional citations

1939-1945 Star, Pacific Star, War Medal 1939-1945, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, Defence Medal, Hong Kong Bar.

In the Books of Remembrance

Commemorated on:

Page 100 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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