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T/265310 6th Battalion, The Buffs (East Kent Regiment)
Arthur Robert Moore known as Robert was born around 1895 in Stoke by Nayland and was the eldest son of eight children of Arthur John and Frederica Emma Moore. His father was a house decorator and the family of eleven lived at 40 Ballingdon Street, Sudbury. At the age of 15 Robert was employed as an errand boy.
Robert walked to Bury St. Edmunds to enlist at the outbreak of war even though he was underage and served with the Suffolk Regiment (formerly 2722). He first served in the Balkans on 30 July 1915. He served in Gallipoli where he was wounded by a bullet going through his body and emerging just below his heart. He was evacuated to the troopship ‘Oregon’ but the ship was torpedoed and sunk on its way back to England. He survived for six hours in the water before being rescued.
Robert joined the 6th Battalion in France just two months before the end of the war after a period of three years recovering from his injuries. In the summer of 1918 the Allies began the Final One Hundred Days Offensive (8 August – 11 November) which led to the end of the war. His battalion which formed part of 37th Brigade, 12th (Eastern) Division saw action at the Battle of Epehy (18 September 1918), a phase of the Battle of the Hindenburg Line (12 September – 12 October 1918).
Robert was killed on 22 September 1918, aged 22. It was just six weeks before the Armistice. There is no known grave and he is remembered on the Vis-En-Artois Memorial, Pas de Calais, France.
He was awarded the 1914-15 Star, British War Medal and Victory Medal and is also remembered on Baptist Church Memorial in Church Street.
The Vis-En-Artois Memorial has the names of nearly 10,000 men with no known grave. All were killed in the last three months of the war. A Cross of Remembrance was laid by his name in March 2014.
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