Moore, John Ross (John)
Second Lieutenant
3rd Battalion, Connaught Rangers attached
7th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Killed in action on Saturday 9 September 1916 (aged 20)
No known grave
Commemorated:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Thiepval Memorial, France (Pier and Face 15 A)
BIOGRAPHY
The death of Second Lieutenant John Ross Moore was reported in the County Down Spectator under the headline Newtownards Man Killed.
It was reported that John Ross Moore was the elder surviving son of Samuel and Annie Moore (nee Ross, daughter of John Ross, a linen manufacturer in Lurgan) and at the time of John Moore’s death his father was manager of the Ulster Bank in Ballina, Co Mayo. Before that, Samuel Moore had been pro-manager of the branch in Londonderry. John Ross Moore’s grandfather, Hugh Moore, had been a Unitarian minister in Newtownards.
Samuel Moore and Annie Ross were married on 6 November 1893 in St Stephen’s Green Presbyterian Church, Dublin.
John Ross Moore was born on 17 December 1895 at 1 Clifton Terrace, Belfast and after that the Moore family moved to Bangor where they lived in Ellensville. In 1901 their address was Princetown Road, Bangor.
Samuel and Annie Moore (nee Ross) had three children:
Hugh (born 17 September 1894 at 1 Clifton Terrace, Duncairn, Belfast; died of convulsions 18 December 1894)
John Ross (born 17 December 1895 at 1 Clifton Terrace, Duncairn, Belfast)
Samuel (born 26 August 1897 at Ellensville, Princetown Road, Bangor)
John Ross Moore and his brother Samuel were educated at Tickenhill, The Palace Boarding School & Lodge, Bewdley, Worcestershire.
Second Lieutenant John Ross Moore served with the 3rd Battalion Connaught Rangers attached to the 7th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 49th Brigade of the 16th (Irish) Division and, entitled as he was to wear a wound stripe, he was 20 when he was killed in action at Ginchy on 9 September 1916.
His first service was as a Private with the Honourable Artillery Company (No. 2738).
Second Lieutenant John Ross Moore has no known grave, and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in France.