Service Life:

Campaigns:

• The First World War 1914-1918, World-wide.

Natural causes is attributed those deaths due to causes that were not directly associated with the war. Included in this are wartime deaths resulting from, for example, theSpanish Influenza pandemic and its associated pneumonia problems and other attributions such as age and exhaustion. It also groups those who through Post Traumatic Stress committed suicide as a result of their experiences.

Detail :

The Chester-le-Street Chronicle and District Advertiser o 27th September, 1918 shows an article of his funeral : "Death of Mr. J.J. MOORE - FREEMASON's FUNERAL. Quite a gloom was cast over the villages of Nettlesworth and Kimblesworth when the news gained currency that Mr. J.J. Moore had passed away after only a week's illness from influenza followed by chronic pneumonia. The sad event occured at his residence the "Woodlands," Nettlesworth, on Friday. The deceased's last public function was to attend the annual meeting, held on the 12th inst. of the Cunoecastre Chapter of Royal Arch Masons, Chester-le-Street for the installation, his military duties having prevented him attending the meetings for the past three years. He went to school duties on the following day, and feeling unwell, he returned home and was taken ill, and died the week following.

The late Mr. Moore had been quite a prominent figure throughout the district for the past 37 years. He was born at Eastgate, Weardale, in 1860, and after serving at St. John's College, York, he was appointed head schoolmaster at Kimblesworth, being then only 21 years of age, and for the long period of 37 years he has adorned his profession by turning out some right good men. He took a very active part in everything that appertained to the welfare of his village and district, whether it was football, cricket, gardening , flower shows - all were carried out under his supervision with a masterly hand.

He took a keen interest in the Volunteer movement at its inception, and whent he first corps was formed at Sacriston, he was the first Col.-Sergt. under Col. (then Capt.) W. C. Blackett. He continued to act as Sergt. until the advent of the Territorials. At the outbreak of the war he accepted a commission as a Lieut. in the Royal Defence Corps, and served in this capacity for three years and up to July of this year. The work of the St. John Ambulance was very dear to him and he spent much of his valuable time in inaugurating classed to forward its work. At the adjoining township of Sacriston he received a medallion in 1889 for his many years service.

The deceased was a man of exceptional ability both in the elementary and science schools. In the latter he specialised in coal and metal mining and geology for which as a teacher he received the Queen's Medal. Mr Moore was an all round ardent sportsman and an experience fisherman, having tried nearly all the rivers throughout the district. He speent much of his spare time in the pleasant pastime of the piscatorial art. No public object was mooted, not only in his village, but throughout the district, but always met with sympathetic aid, and kindly assistance.

The deceased gentleman was an ardent Freemason, having been a member of Craft Masons, Royal Arch Masons, and Mark Masons, and had occupied high offices in each branch. He was initiated into the Earl of Durham Lodge (1274) Chester-le-Street, over 30 years ago, of which he was a P.M. and received the Provincial honour of Grand Organist. He was a member of the Concord Chapter of Durham, and a founder of the Cunecoestre Chapter, Chester-le-Street, being a P.Z. of both Chapters. He was also a P.M. of Mark Masons. It is fitting that his keenness for Freemasonry should be crowned by a Mason's internment."

Masonic :

John Moore is listed in 1887 as a 27 year old Schoolmaster from Kimblesworth. There is no explicit war service in the contribution record which is closed out with "Died 20th Sep/18."

His headstone records: In Affectionate Memoriam of John Joseph Moore of Woodlands, Nettlesworth who was headmaster for 37 years at Kimblesworth School ... died September 20th 191[8] Aged 56 years. And in affectionate memory of his younger daughter Elsie Mabel Moore who died December 12th 1933.

In the 1921 book, he is listed as Lieutenant John Moore.

Source :

The project globally acknowledges the following as sources of information for research across the whole database:

• The Commonwealth War Graves Commission
• The (UK) National Archives
• Ancestry.co.uk - Genealogy, Family Trees & Family History online
• ugle.org.uk - The records of the United Grand Lodge of England including the Library and Museum of Freemasonry

Additional Source:

• Founder Researchers : Paul Masters & Mike McCarthy
• Researcher : Bruce Littley