Regimental number | 174 |
Place of birth | Brunswick, Victoria |
School | Yarraville State School, Victoria |
Religion | Presbyterian |
Occupation | Baker |
Address | Yarraville, Victoria |
Marital status | Single |
Age at embarkation | 35 |
Next of kin | Father, Robert Moyes, 37 Buninyong Street, Yarraville, Victoria |
Enlistment date | |
Rank on enlistment | Private |
Unit name | 39th Battalion, A Company |
AWM Embarkation Roll number | 23/56/1 |
Embarkation details | Unit embarked from Melbourne, Victoria, on board HMAT A11 Ascanius on |
Rank from Nominal Roll | Private |
Unit from Nominal Roll | 10th Light Trench Mortar Battery |
Recommendations (Medals and Awards) |
Military Medal 'Work at Armentieres on 12-13 April 1917.' Recommendation date: |
Fate | Killed in Action |
Place of death or wounding | Passchendaele, Ypres, Belgium |
Age at death | 36 |
Age at death from cemetery records | 36 |
Place of burial | No known grave |
Commemoration details | The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 31), Belgium The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war. The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave. The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra, at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936. Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign. |
Panel number, Roll of Honour, Australian War Memorial | 20 |
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records | Parents: Robert and Annie MOYES. Native of Victoria |
Medals |
Military Medal 'At ARMENTIERES on the night 12th/13th April, 1917, on the occasion of a heavy bombardment of our lines and an attempted enemy raid on our trenches, this man was in charge of a Stokes gun. During the heavy bombardment his emplacement received three direct hits, and the barrel of his gun became choked with mud from the explosion. With great coolness he cleaned out the gun, and continued firing on the advancing enemy; he fired in all eight shells. This man has shown coolness, courage, and ability on several previous occasions.'
Source: 'Commonwealth Gazette' No. 174 Date: |
Other details |
War service: Western Front Medals: Military Medal, British War Medal, Victory Medal |