Arthur Moore was born 9 April 1879 in Frome, Somerset.
Arthur was the youngest son of Henry Albert Moore (a farmer) and his wife Elizabeth (née Thirza) of Moore of Park House, Whatley, near Frome and the youngest of six children.
He was educated Warminster Grammar School.
In Birmingham in 1891 his father ran a brass foundry, his mother was a coal merchant and his older siblings did various things in manufacturing. This life wasn't for Arthur who left for Australia in 1900. He settled first in Melbourne and then Sydney and was working as a barman when he enlisted (age 36).
Arthur enlisted in the Yeoman Cavalry at Melbourne on the 12th January 1915. His Certificate of Medical Examination gives him as 5ft 8in with fair hair and blue eyes. He left from Europe from Melbourne in April 1915. On 3 July 1915 he joined his Battalion on the Gallipoli Peninsula. He fell ‘dangerously ill’ the following month and was sent to Malta on the 12 August. He was wounded in the head two days after returning to Gallipoli in early September.
Arthur was taken by the Dunbar Castle back to Malta and initially submitted to the Auberge de Bavier Hospital. He was transferred to the H.S. Oxfordshire on 29 September 1915 to transfer to England.
The fracture to the front of his skull left many small pieces of shrapnel in his head. According to his medical records on the 29th he vomited in the afternoon, fell unconscious during the evening and died in King George’s Hospital, London at 11:20pm on 29th February 1916. He was buried in Frome in a grave next to his father.
No. 1990 Pte Arthur Moore 5th Bn Australian Expeditionary Force
29 February 1916
Older brother Charles enlisted, attested in January 1916 and served aboard. He contracted malaria and was transferred to the labour corps and was working on the docks at Woolwich when he was demobbed with a disability pension in August 1919.
Sources: De Ruvigny’s Roll of Honour; Census Records; 1881 England Census; Victoria, Willans and Probate Records, 1841-2009; Australian World War I Service Records; Military Hospitals in Malta 1914-1918.