Lance Corporal 25617.

2^nd. Bn., Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby) Rgt.

Died Monday 28^th May 1917 aged. 24.

Grave ref. 1. Q. 15 Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, Pas de Calais, France.

John Leslie Moore was born in Codnor, Derbyshire. His parents, George and Sarah E. Moore later moved to Main Road, Jacksdale. He also had a sister, Florence Lilian Moore, fourteen years his junior.

L/Cpl Moore enlisted at Nottingham, date unknown but we do know it would have, perhaps, taken a reasonable amount of service for him to attain the rank of Lance Corporal.

He was killed in action on Monday 28th May 1917, when taking part in a raid on German Trenches, near Philosophe, in the Loos Salient, France, aged 24 years.

Buried at Philosophe British Cemetery, Mazingarbe, Pas de Calais, France.

Commemorated on both the Ironville/Codnor Park and Jacksdale War Memorials.

There is a family grave in St Mary's Church Cemetery, Westwood. His father George died, only six months after his son, on 18th October 1917, aged 53 years. His mother, Sarah Elizabeth died on the 3rd July 1949.

Sherwood Foresters World War One Casualties - 11,298
Source: R. Capewell 'Discovering Military Badges.'