Samuel Moores

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Samuel Moores was born in Bourton, Dorset, on 21 Oct 1878 and baptised there on 10 Nov 1878 the son of Frederick Moores and Sara Ann Moores (nee Baker). He lived most of his life in Bourton. On 18 Sep 1897 he had enlisted with the Dorsetshire Regiment as a Private (Service No. 5407) having previously served with the Volunteer Battalion. Nothing else is know about this earlier period of military service. He had married Elizabeth Sarah Ellen Parsons in Shaftesbury, Dorset, during 1907. According to the 1918 Absent Voters List he was then serving with the 807th Agricultural Company of the Labour Corps as a Private (Service No. 361703) giving has address as 6 Bimport, Shaftesbury. By the 1921 Census he was recorded at Yew Tree Cottage, Bourton, working as a Fitters Labourer. The 1939 Register gives his address as Sandway, Bourton, but he is now described as Incapacitated (Army). He died at Yeatmans Hospital, Sherborne, Dorset, during 1956 and was buried in Bourton on 6 Sep 1956.