Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Private E. G. Moore, Royal Marine Light Infantry

Queen’s South Africa 1899-1902, 3 clasps, Paardeberg, Cape Colony, Driefontein (9687 Pte., R.M., H.M.S. Monarch); 1914-15 Star (Ch.9687 Pte., R.M.L.I.); British War and Victory Medals (Ch.9687 Pte., R.M.L.I.) ‘named as “G. Moore” on last three, first with edge bruising, very fine and better (4) £300-350

George Moore was born on 4 December 1878 in Ipswich. A Groom by occupation, he enlisted into the Royal Marines in London on 12 March 1897. He served on the old battleship Monarch, November 1899-June 1903, and was awarded the Queen’s medal with three clasps. During the Great War he served aboard the Endeavour, April 1914-January 1919. With recipient’s ‘Permanent Pass’, a group photograph, a postcard photograph of the ‘1911’ H.M.S. Monarch’, and copied service papers.