Moore, Lewis Daniel Died

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Personal Information

Rank AC1
Forename(s) Lewis Daniel
Surname Moore
Gender M
Age 33
Date of Death 02-07-1943
Next of Kin Son of Oswald Brewer Moore and Miriam Alice Moore, of 25, High Street, Tewkesbury. Husband of Isabel Mary Moore (née Walker), of 15 Bates Road, Earlsdon, Coventry. The couple married in Coventry Cathedral and resided at Temple House, Evesham.
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Aircraft Information

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Memorial Information

Burial/Memorial Country United Kingdom
Burial/Memorial Place Tewkesbury Cemetery
Grave Reference Sec. B. Grave 523.
Epitaph REST ETERNAL GRANT UNTO HIM, O LORD; AND LET LIGHT PERPETUAL SHINE UPON HIM

IBCC Memorial Information

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Directions to panel 214
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Directions From the Chadwick Centre, take the central path towards The Spire.

Phase 2
Panel Number 214

Enlistment Information

Service Number 1665709
Service Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Group 4
Squadron 158
Squadron Motto Strength in unity
Trade Ground staff
Country of Origin United Kingdom

Other Memorials

Location St. James of Compostola Church, Lissett, East Yorkshire
Country United Kingdom
Memorial Type Memorial Stone & Inscribed Metal Plaque
Memorial Text Memorial to 158 Sqn, RAF Lissett 28th February 1943 - 17th August 1946
Location St. James of Compostola Church, Lissett, East Yorkshire
Country United Kingdom
Memorial Type Stained Glass Window & Inscribed Metal Plaques
Memorial Text A stained glass window in memory of 158 Sqn RAF
Location Adjacent to former airfield, Lissett, East Yorkshire
Country United Kingdom
Memorial Type Metal Sculpture, Wind Turbines & Info Board
Memorial Text 12 wind turbines named after Halifax Bombers of 158 Sqn and groundcrew who were killed on 2nd July 1943
Location Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, North Yorkshire
Country United Kingdom
Memorial Type Memorial Gardens, Propeller, Inscribed Marble Tablets
Memorial Text In everlasting homage to the courage of those who have found their winged victory through the skies of Yorkshire
Location Yorkshire Air Museum, Elvington, North Yorkshire
Country United Kingdom
Memorial Type Propeller Unit & Inscribed Marble Tablets
Memorial Text They made the supreme sacrifice so that you & I may go in peace with freedom. 4 Group 1939 - 1945.
Location Heslington Hall, York, North Yorkshire
Country United Kingdom
Memorial Type Inscribed Metal Plaque
Memorial Text Heslington Hall 1941 - 1945, 4 Gp Headquarters Bomber Command. In remembrance of those Air & Ground personnel who made the supreme sacrifice that we all may walk in peace with freedom

Miscellaneous Information

The Moore Family had suffered the loss of their eldest son, Chief Engine Room Artificer Ralph Ivan Moore at the age of 44, when he was lost with HMS Broadwater on 18 October 1941. He had joined the Royal Navy in 1912 and had served throughout the Great War, retiring in 1937, he was recalled in October 1939. Lewis was educated at Tewkesbury Grammar School and was a member of the Tewkesbury Boy Scouts. Later he entered the employment of Lloyds Bank and worked for ten years at the Evesham Branch. He joined the RAF in 1942, becoming an armourer, prior to which had been a member of the Home Guard.
The Tewkesbury Register and Gazette, 10th July 1943 continued: ‘Throughout his life Aircraftman Moore maintained a wide interest over a diverse range of subjects and particularly for all forms of art. Possessed of a brilliant brain and a high artistic gifts, his ability expressed itself in much talented and original work. He specialised in manuscripts of exquisite illuminated lettering, their sensitive tones and beautiful border decorations executed with a skill which was all the more remarkable sine he was a self taught artist. Yet from the highly detailed work, with pictures in miniature that had to be painted on a microscopic scale, he could turn with equal zest and facilitate to the creation of bold brilliantly coloured life size paintings and strlking posters. All who attended the dances held jointly with the Evesham Banks and Evesham amateur dramatic society during the years just prior to the war will record the vivid and original decorative schemes which was devised and carried out and he was also responsible for the arresting model used for Evesham’s Warship Week. From the times when he started stamp collecting as an eight year old child, philately had been one of his hobbies and his life long enthusiasm had made him an authority on the subject. He had contributed several articles to Stanley Gibbons magazine and at the collectors exhibition held in Evesham some time ago was a first prise winner. Music was another of his interests, as a listener and a collector of records, he was a sure and lively critic. He was also an accomplished linguist. And his scholastic ability was evidenced when he awarded the Charles Reeve prize for English when he took the Institute of Bankers examination. Aircraftman Moore was a devout Churchman and was an altar server at All Saints Church and a member of the Parochial Church Council. When he was at Tewkesbury, he was a server at the Abbey.’
Lewis’s funeral took place at Tewkesbury Abbey on Thursday 8 July 1943. The mourners were his wife, sister, sister in law, mother in law, brother in law, cousins, uncles, staff of Lloyds Bank and friends, the funeral conducted by the Vicar of Tewkesbury.
Also killed: AC2 Robert George Mills buried Springfield (Holy Trinity) Churchyard AC1 William Mithan buried Trealaw Cemetery AC1 Kenneth Darwing Taylor buried Driffield Cemetery. No remains were found for Corporal Leslie Tomlinson Fielding and AC1 Jack Ezra Laycock, and they are commemorated on the Runnymede Memorial. The squadron’s Operational Record Book recorded that five men were killed and one man was injured by the explosion of a bomb in the bomb dump.

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Reason for Aircraft Loss A 1000lb bomb exploded while on its trolley at RAF Lissett, Yorkshire, killing six ground crew.
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