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Private NORMAN MONDAY
4345329 Private, East Yorkshire Regiment, 50th Division (Northumberland), XXX Corps. Age 25 Died 8.6.1944
Private NORMAN MONDAY, was the son of Arthur and Edith Monday of Hull. He was yet another of the servicemen who took part in the allied invasion
of Normandy on D-Day 5th June. Among the first wave of assault troops, the East Yorkshire Regiment, were tasked with storming the beach and silencing the fortified gun positions covering the beaches. The
bitter fighting saw the heaviest and costliest number of casualties suffered by the British. Only the casualty rate the American’s suffered on the ‘Omaha Beach’ were heavier.
Private Monday was cut down by machine gun fire, as he tried to neutralise a bunker containing a machine gun nest, and which was taking heavy
toll of his comrades. Badly wounded, he was transferred to a hospital ship, via a Casualty Clearing Station. He survived the surgery to remove two bullets, but infection set in, and as the ship sailed
back to this country he lost his fight for life. Private NORMAN MONDAY, was buried on Thursday 15th June 1944, he was laid to rest in the War Graves Section (see plans on back pages), Row1 Grave 19, and
is commemorated by a CWG headstone.
Captain BEAUFOI JOHN MONTRESSOR MOORE, M.C., R.F.C. Captain, Royal Flying Corps. Age 31 Died 10th June 1917
Captain BEAUFOI JOHN MONTRESSOR MOORE, Military Cross, Royal Flying Corps, was the son of Beaufoi and Cecilia Moore, and his home address was
listed as 4 Pump Court, Temple, London. When war was declared against Germany in 1914, he was in Canada on business. He cut short the visit and returned to this Country to enlist for military service.
Through medical reasons, he was not allowed a commission in the Army. He Joined the R.F.C. as an air mechanic class 1. After a short time, his potential was noticed and he was commissioned. As an officer
he qualified as a pilot, and saw service in France, where he was to be awarded the Military Cross for his bravery. This he received in February 1917 at Buckingham Palace. He was posted back to Grange
Aerodrome, where he became one of the Instructors, rising to command No 1 Training Squadron.
On the 10th of June 1917 Captain Moore nicknamed ‘Granny’ by virtue of the fact that he was the oldest of the instructors at Grange,
took off in an Avro 504B ‘B’ service no 1399. In the rear seat, was Captain Heard who was under flying instruction. During the flight, Capt. Moore turned around to give
instruction to his pupil, whilst trying to make himself heard, he had not realised that the aeroplane had begun to loose height and was now flying at about 60 feet above the ground. The machine collided
with a tall tree on Lee-on-Solent Golf Links. Rescuers rushed from the airfield to the scene and the two occupants were taken from the wreckage, which had fallen to the foot of the tree. A Medical
Officer who arrived on the scene just after the accident stated that on its fall, the machine was on fire and smashed, Captain Moore was lying beside it quite dead, but Captain Heard who was lying some
distance away was conscious. Captain Moore sustained terrible injuries, and died instantaneously. A verdict of accidental death was returned. Captain BEAUFOI MONTRESSOR MOORE, M.C., R.F.C. was buried on
Wednesday 13th June 1917, and is laid to rest, Plot 50 Space 45, and is commemorated by a Family Memorial.
Miss COLLEEN MARGERET AILEEN MOORE Age 10 Died 22.6.1941
Miss COLLEEN MARGERET AILEEN MOORE, was the daughter of Phillip Alexander and Emma Moore. She was just 10 years old. It is believed that her
parents evacuated her to the countryside, so that she would be safe from the bombing in this area. Sadly although in the Fernyhurst area near Rownhams, Hampshire, on Sunday 22nd June 1941, a lone
aircraft, which had been taking part in an inland bombing mission, fell pray to an attack by a night fighter. In an attempt to escape, the raider jettisoned its bomb-load, and fled. It did not get far;
it was shot down west of the Isle of Wight, killing its crew.
Miss, COLLEEN MARGERET MOORE, was buried on Wednesday 25th of June 1941, in the old part of the cemetery (same side as the cemetery office) she
is laid to rest, Plot 12a Space 29, next to her grandparents, and is commemorated by a Civilian War Grave headstone.
ER.A. GODFREY RICHARD MORETON, R.N. MX/5749, Engine Room Artificer Apprentice, Royal Navy. Age 17 Died
12.8.1940 SEE – Mrs CHARLOTTE MATILDA MOGG
Mr EUGENE MORRIARTY Labourer, Wimpey Works, Rowner. Age 26 Died
16.8.1940
SEE - CORPORAL GEORGE ATKINSON, R.A.F.
Lieutenant, WALTER SCOTT MORRISON, R.F.C. 2nd Lieutenant, Royal Flying Corps. Age 22 Died 18.3.1917
Lieutenant WALTER SCOTT MORRISON, Royal Flying Corps, was the son of James Smith Morrison and Annie Booth Morrison. Along with Lt. John James
Elmslie Gray serving with No. 28 Squadron R.F.C. They took off from Grange aerodrome in the early afternoon of the 18th of March 1917 in a Fe2b, service. No. 4912. He was practising taking off and
landing. This continued, until just after 5.00pm. When upon getting airborne and achieving an altitude of some 400 feet, the aeroplane was seen by those on the ground, to make strange movements. It then
turned over onto its back, the pilot managed to partly correct this, but then inexplicably, the aircraft nose-dived towards the ground, throwing Lt. Gray out of the machine. The fall broke his spinal
column. Killing him instantly. Lt. Morrison, firmly strapped in came down with the plane, which crashed with tremendous force, he was alive when taken from the
wreckage of the aeroplane, but sadly died shortly afterwards from a fractured skull. As a pitiful footnote, Lt. Morrison arrived at the aerodrome having just transferred to the Royal Flying Corps on the
day he was killed; it is possible the fatal flight could have been one of his first flights.
Lieutenant WALTER SCOTT MORRISON, RFC, was buried on Wednesday 21st March, he is laid to rest, Plot 53
Space 58, and is commemorated by a CWG headstone.
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