Able Seaman Reginald Moore
Royal Navy. HMS Princess Alberta
21/02/1917
Killed in action, aged 24 years.
NEWS ITEM in Jersey Evening Post of Thursday 1 March
1917
Roll of Honour. The many local friends
and acquaintances of Able Seaman Reginald Moore of HMS
Blenheim will regret to hear that a telegram has been
received from the Admiralty stating that he lost his
life on 21 February whilst serving on a vessel of the
Auxiliary Mercantile Fleet which was sunk. Gunner, as
he was more generally known, was the step-son of Major
S Moore of the AOC and the adopted son of Mr H Moore
of 27 Dorset Street. He was one of the first local lads
to join the 1st Jersey St Simons Troop of Boy Scouts
and being of bright and jovial disposition made friends
wherever he went. He served as a seaman for some 6 years
on the Great Western steamers and later on the SS Brittany.
He was actually passing for his Mates Certificate when
a call for volunteers for the Royal Navy was made on
his ship. Gunner promptly wrote home stating there was
"time enough for Mates, they want men to fight,
I'll get my ticket after the war". The late
seaman was in his 25th year and was highly respected
by all he had come into contact with. To his relatives
we tender our sincere condolences in their bereavement.
