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Percival Moore

In memory of:

Private Percival Moore

April 9, 1917

Military Service

Service Number:

787646

Age:

19

Force:

Army

Unit:

Canadian Infantry (Eastern Ontario Regiment)

Division:

"A" Coy., 38th Bn.

Additional Information

Born:

June 21, 1897
Miles Platten, Manchester, England

Enlistment:

January 4, 1916
Carleton Place, Ontario

Son of William and Elizabeth Moore, of Carleton Place, Ontario. Private Moore lied about his age on enlistment. He was actually 16 years of age at the time of his death. The Town of Carleton Place remembered Private Moore by naming a street in his honour.

Commemorated on Page 296 of the First World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information

Cemetery:

CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2
Pas de Calais, France

Grave Reference:

10.C.28.

Location:

The CANADIAN CEMETERY No. 2 is about 2.5 kilometres north of the village of Neuville-St. Vaast. The village is about 6 kilometres north of Arras and 1 kilometre east of the main road from Arras to Bethune. The cemetery is on a spur road turning left from the road to Givenchy-en-Gohelle, about 1 kilometre south of the Canadian Memorial at Vimy.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Photo of Percival Moore– From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919.

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    Photo of Percival Moore
    Photo of Percival Moore – From "Our Heroes in The Great World War", compiled by J. H. De Wolfe, Patriotic Publishing Co., Ottawa, Ontario, 1919.
  • Gravemarker– Vimy Ridge, Easter Monday, April 2007

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    Gravemarker – Vimy Ridge, Easter Monday, April 2007
  • Inscription– His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. His body was discovered and placed in Canadian Cemetery No.2 in 1930. May he never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)

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    Inscription
    Inscription – His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial (2010). Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. His body was discovered and placed in Canadian Cemetery No.2 in 1930. May he never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)
  • Vimy Memorial– Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)

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    Vimy Memorial
    Vimy Memorial – Canada's Vimy Memorial, located approximately 8 kilometres to the north-east of Arras, France. May the sacrifice of so many never be forgotten. (J. Stephens)

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