Name: Raymond Moore Rank: Private Service number: F/40528 Service: North Nova Scotia Highlanders, R.C.I.C. Date of Birth: April 16, 1917 Place of Birth: Kentville Kings Co., Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: May 16, 1940 Place of Enlistment: Aldershot, Kings Co., Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Kentville Kings Co., Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 23 Occupation: Labourer Marital Status: Single Religion: Baptist Next of Kin: Berta Moore (Mother) Date of Death: June 7, 1944 (Executed by German forces) Age: 27 Cemetery: Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, France Reference: XIV, Row E, Grave 11 Commemorated on Page 397 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance Displayed in the Memorial Chamber of the Peace Tower in Ottawa on August 26 Raymond was the son of Charles Henry Moore (1899-1970) and Bertha Christina (Shay) Moore (1898-1968), of Kentville, Nova Scotia. His attestation paper recorded his date of birth as April 16, 1916. His siblings were Jessie Agnes Moore (1912-1966), Walter Leslie Moore (1918-1941), Glorie I Moore (1921- 1921), Reginald William Moore (1922-1984), Marjorie Helen Moore (1924-1994), Garnet William Moore (1935- 1997), Beatrice Moore (d. 1994). His brother Rifleman Walter Leslie Moore died December 23, 1941, while serving with the Royal Rifles of Canada, during the Battle of Hong Kong. His brother Reginald William served with the Royal Canadian Engineers during the Second World War, and married Catherine Marion Muise (1925-2025), who was from East Chebogue and was born in Lower Melbourne, Yarmouth Co., NS; the daughter of Clifford Muise and Levina (Thibault) Muise. At enlistment, Raymond indicated he would like to work in the civil service after the war when returning to civilian life. After enlisting in May 1940, Raymond completed his initial training at Aldershot in Kentville, Nova Scotia. He transferred to Amherst and the North Nova Scotia Highlanders Regiment on March 28, 1941, and then Debert, NS, and Halifax for transferring overseas. Following the D-Day landings on June 6, 1944, a group of Canadian prisoners of war, including Raymond Moore, were held at the Abbaye d'Ardenne, which served as the headquarters for the 12th SS Panzer Division Hitlerjugend. In the days following the invasion, approximately 20 Canadian soldiers, many from the North Nova Scotia Highlanders, were executed by German forces at the site. A monument was unveiled at the site on the fortieth anniversary of D-Day in 1984 to commemorate those who were murdered.

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