Moore

Selected Biographies

Moore, Charles Henry Ÿ Born: Millwall, London on 18.3.1886.[1]  Parents: Charles Moore (Barge Builder) and Ellen Elizabeth [née Penfold] (Fancy Goods Shopkeeper).  Home: 81 Westferry Road, Poplar, London (1891), 4 Ingelow Road, Battersea, London (1901), 69 Burnbury Road, Balham, London (1911), School House, The Green, Long Melford [1917], Sunny Bank, Cavendish Road, Clare, Suffolk (1939).  Occupation: Pupil Teacher (1901), Assistant Teacher (1911), Headmaster of Long Melford Boys’ Voluntary School [1915] to (1921), Headmaster; also, member of the Observer Corps, Air Raid Precautions, and a registered First Aider (1939).  Married: Elizabeth Alice Spurge in 1910 [see below for details].  Service Record: Charles acted as an enumerator for Long Melford in the National Registration of August.  At the Melford Tribunal in June 1917 the panel was informed that an earlier exemption they had granted to Charles Moore, had been challenged at appeal by the tribunal’s military representative.  The revision however, had been refused and the original exemption remained in place.  Perhaps ironically in this same year Charles was part of a team of ‘canvassers’ attempting to persuade other men to volunteer before their scheduled conscription date.  He was also asked to sit on the Long Melford War Memorial Committee when it was formed at the end of February 1919. [2]

Moore, Mrs Elizabeth Alice [née Spurge] Ÿ Born: Dalston, London on 29.8.1885.[3]  Parents: Augustus Edwin Spurge (Embroidery Agent) and Elizabeth Mary [née Blythe] of Long Melford.  Home: Living with Alfred and Elizabeth Blythe (Grandparents) in Hall Street, Long Melford (1891), School House, The Green, Long Melford [1917], Sunny Bank, Cavendish Road, Clare, Suffolk (1939).  Occupation: Pupil Teacher (1901), Certified Teacher (1939).  Married: Charles Henry Moore (Headmaster of Long Melford School) in 1910.  Service Record: Mrs Moore was a volunteer with the British Red Cross Society and a member of the Red Cross Working Party in Long Melford from June 1917 to October 1918.  In 1917 she also acted as a recruiting canvasser and was Honorary Treasurer of the Long Melford Women’s Institute when it was founded in May 1918.[4]

Notes – [1] Date of birth from the 1939 Register for Clare, Suffolk.  [2] For local set up of the National Registration see Suffolk and Essex Free Press 11.8.1915.  For the Appeal Tribunal’s ruling see SEFP 6.6.1917.  [3] Date of birth from the 1939 Register for Clare, Suffolk.  [4] See her British Red Cross Record Card in the name of Mrs Elizabeth Moore.