{"id":24146,"date":"2026-04-15T10:18:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T10:18:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/?page_id=24146"},"modified":"2026-04-15T19:42:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T19:42:26","slug":"lt-d-b-moore","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/second-world-war\/38-irish-brigade-1942-1947\/roll-of-honour-2\/roll-of-honour\/lt-d-b-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Lt. D.B. Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>The death of Lieutenant D.B. Moore on the night of 27 December 1942, while on a patrol, was a great loss to the Battalion. Desmond was posted to the Faughs from the Worcestershire Regiment and joined &#8216;B&#8217; Company in October 1942.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He will long be remembered with a grin on his face and a bathing towel over his shoulder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>None of his Platoon will forget the little wooden flute which he carved himself and produced at the most unexpected times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Desmond was with us for such a short time, he became a staunch Faugh and is missed by us all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To his parents and relations, we offer our deepest sympathy.<\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8-Moore-Copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-24163\" style=\"width:456px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8-Moore-Copy.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/8-Moore-Copy-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death of Lieutenant D.B. Moore on the night of 27 December 1942, while on a patrol, was a great loss to the Battalion. Desmond was posted to the Faughs from the Worcestershire Regiment and joined &#8216;B&#8217; Company in October 1942. He will long be remembered with a grin on his face and a bathing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":15250,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-24146","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24146"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24164,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/24146\/revisions\/24164"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.londonirishrifles.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}