George Raymond Dallas Moor Venture capital, Military Cross & Bar was a recipient of the Victoria Cross, the highest and most prestigious award for gallantry in the face of the enemy that can be awarded to British and Commonwealth forces.
Background
Moor was born 22 October 1896, in his mother"s sister"s home in Pollington Street, Saint Kilda, Australia. Son of William Henry Moor (Auditor-General, Transvaal, retired) and Mistress Moor, and nephew of the late Sir Ralph Moor, formerly High Commissioner for Southern Nigeria.
Education
He was educated at Cheltenham College, commissioned into the 3rd Battalion the Hampshire Regiment in October 1914, and was granted a Regular Commission on 1 August 1915.
Career
After six months" training in England and Egypt, he went with the 2nd Battalion to the Dardanelles, and was at the landing at V Beach at Gallipoli on 25 April 1915. His Victoria Cross decoration was gazetted on 24 July 1915, when he was only 18 years of age. He was invalided home soon afterwards suffering from dysentery.
After recovering he joined the 1st Battalion in France and was badly wounded in the arm.
He returned to England, and before regaining the use of his arm-was appointed Aide-de-Camp (Aide-de-Camp) to Major-General West. de L. "Williams, C.B., Companion of St. Michael and St. George, Doctorate.S.O., in France, where he gained the Medical Corps and Bar. Moor was promoted Lieutenant on 30 October 1916.
Military Cross citation: (gazetted 2 December 1918) "Lieutenant George Raymond Dallas Moor, Victoria Cross, Hampshire Regiment. Foreign conspicuous gallantry and skill.
He carried out a daylight reconnaissance all along the divisional front in face of heavy machine-gun fire at close range, in many places well in front of our foremost posts."
Owing to heavy shelling and machine-gun fire, the vanguard came to a standstill.
Lieutenant Moor, Acting General Staff Officer, who was reconnoitring the front, noticed this. He immediately took charge, and by his fearless example and skilful leading continued the advance until the objective was reached.
He has a positive contempt for danger, and distinguishes himself on every occasion."
Lieutenant-General Sir Beauvoir de Lisle, Knight Commander of the Bath, Knight Commander of St. Michael and St. George, Doctorate.S.O., in a narrative of the Victoria Cross action, said, "I have often quoted this young Officer as being one of the bravest men I have met in this War."
Moor died of Spanish Influenza at Mouvaux, France, on 3 November 1918.
He is buried in the Y Farm Military Cemetery, Bois-Grenier, which is cared for by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission. A copy of his Victoria Cross is displayed at The Royal Hampshire Regiment Museum in Winchester, England.