Orders, Decorations and Medals

A Great War M.M. group of three awarded to Sergeant T. F. Moore, 1/20th London Regiment

Military Medal, G.V.R. (632924 L. Cpl. T. F. Moore, 1/20 London R.); British War and Victory Medals (5958 Sjt. T. F. Moore, 20-Lond. R.), extremely fine (3) £300-350

M.M. London Gazette 6 August 1918.

Thomas Frederick Moore served in France from mid-June 1916 until late September 1916, and again from May 1917 until the end of the War.

The 1/20th (Blackheath and Woolwich) Battalion, London Regiment arrived on the Somme in late August 1916, and carried out a successful attack on High Wood on 15 September, bombing down the German trenches and clearing the wood entirely - at a cost of 268 casualties. Having then participated in further actions on the Flers Line, the Battalion was entrained for Ypres in October.