LEST WE FORGET
Pilot Officer Peter John MOORE
From Australia serving in the Royal Air Force
Service No: 112401 (RAF)
Born: Date, Location unavailable
Enlisted in the RAF: Acting Pilot Officer – 10 April 1940
Unit: No. 616 Squadron (RAF), RAF Station Kings Cliffe, Northamptonshire
Died: Air Operations: Fighter Command in 1942 (No. 616 Squadron Spitfire VI aircraft BR191), France, 3 June 1942, Aged 22 Years
Buried: Etaples Military Cemetery, Pas de Calais, France
CWGC Additional Information: Son of Arthur Fitzroy Moore, and of Catherine Susan Moore, of Melbourne, Australia
Roll of Honour: Unknown
Remembered: Commemorative Roll, Australian War Memorial, Canberra
Pilot Officer Moore fought in the Battle of Britain.
Spitfire BR191 took off from Kings Cliffe on the afternoon of 3 June 1942 for a Circus 184. The aircraft was engaged and shot down off Le Touquet, France, and Pilot Officer Moore was killed.
References:
Australian War Memorial Commemorative Roll On-Line Records
Commonwealth War Graves Commission On-Line Records
Franks, Norman L R Royal Air Force Fighter Command Losses of the Second World war Volume 2 Operational Losses: Aircraft and Crews 1942-1943, Midland Publishing Leicester UK, 1998