Major Hatherley George Moor, Royal Artillery. Younger son of the Reverend Canon Allen Page Moor and Eliza Harriet Moor (nee Wray), of St Clement's, Truro, Cornwall. Educated at Shrewsbury School and Trinity College, Cambridge University. He entered the Royal Artillery from the Militia, Nov 1890. He spent the next three years serving in a garrison company in Mauritius before returning to England. He was promoted to Lieutenant in Nov 1893 and to Captain in Oct 1899. He was transferred to No 10 Mountain Battery in Natal, South Africa, serving as Garrison Adjutant for 13 months before a secondment to the British South Africa Company (employed with the British South African Police), to reorganise their artillery during their confrontation with the Matabele and Mashona tribes in Rhodesia in 1897. He was Mentioned in Despatches (London Gazette 18 Feb 1898). Shortly after returning to Natal he was transferred to Wales. In Jun 1899, he was appointed to command the Permanent Artillery Garrison at King George's Sound, Albany in Western Australia, with the local rank of major, arriving in Aug 1899. He was selected to command the 1st Western Australian Infantry being raised for service in South Africa with the rank of Major as hostilities broke out in Oct 1899. On arrival in Cape Town they were amalgamated with other Australian contingents to form the First Australian Regiment under the command of Colonel J C Hoad of Victoria. The newly formed regiment left for De Aar to join the Kimberley Relief Force and were active in the lines of communication between De Aar and Modder River. Major Moor's company was at Naauwpoort, when it was converted to Mounted Infantry on 1 Feb 1900. Major Moor led his men in operations and actions in Transvaal and the Orange Free State. At Slingersfontein on 9 Feb 1900, he narrowly escaped being killed through assisting a wounded man and giving him his horse. He was killed in action at Palmietfonteinon, some 75 kilometres east of Kroonstad in the Orange Free State, on 19 Jul 1900 aged 29 years during the first British attempt to hunt down and capture the Boer general, Christiaan de Wet, while he was making north towards the Transvaal with 1,500 men. The engagement took the form of a running fight over about thirteen kilometres. He was buried first at Palmietfontein, but his remains were reinterred twice, his final resting place in Lindley's Garden of Remembrance, where his original headstone recorded his British South Africa Medal for his work in Rhodesia in 1897, and the Queen's South Africa Medal with clasps for Johannesburg, Diamond Hill, Wittebergen and Cape Colony. He was mentioned in the despatch of Field Marshal Earl Roberts on 1 Mar 1902. He is also commemorated on the right side of the memorial window placed in the chapel of Shrewsbury School in remembrance of fourteen Salopians who died in the Second Anglo Boer War; on a memorial plaque in St John's Church, Albany, Western Australia and on a Boer War memorial in Kings Park, Fraser Avenue, Perth, Western Australia (see: https://vwma.org.au/explore/memorials/3075).