Name: Harry Garnet Moore Rank: Private Service Number: F/43861 Service: 2nd Canadian Armoured Brigade Company, Royal Canadian Army Service Corps Awards: 1939-45 Star, France, and Germany Star, Defence Medal, Canadian Volunteer Service Medal and Clasp, War Medal 1939-45 Date of Birth: April 18, 1911 Place of Birth: Kentville, Kings County, Nova Scotia Date of Enlistment: January 12, 1943 Place of Enlistment: Kentville, Kings County, Nova Scotia Address at Enlistment: Kentville, Kings County, Nova Scotia Age at Enlistment: 31 Height: 5 feet, 9 inches Complexion: Fair Hair Color: Fair Eye Color: Blue Occupation: Sheet metal worker Marital Status: Single Religion: Church of England Next of Kin: Charles Moore (Father), Kentville, NS Date of Death: June 6, 1944 Age: 33 Cemetery: Bayeux Memorial, Bayeux, Calvados, France Reference: Panel 27, Column 2 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 Harry Garnet Moore was the son of Son of Charles Hubert Moore (1878-1971) and Lulu Hushen Moore (1882- 1957) of Kentville, Nova Scotia, and the brother of ten siblings – brothers Fred Charles Moore (1902-1995), George Thomas Moore (1905-1960), Victor Moore, Everett Moore, and Richard Moore, and sisters Jessie Agnes Moore, (1904-1966), Myrtle Margaret Moore (1908-1983), Marjorie Moore, Truth Moore, Dorothy Moore, and Thelma Moore (1910-1922). Harry completed Grade 8 in 11 years and had left school to work at the age of 19. Working as a sheet metal worker for a plumbing contractor, Harry still lived in Kentville before the war and enlisted in the Canadian Army on January 12, 1943, in Kentville with the No. 84 Company of the RCASC. He had worked in sheet metal for 7 years, and 2 in farming. He noted that after the war his employment preference would be to become a welder. He had also bought a small place near Kentville where he intended to live after the war. His enlisted records also note that he baseball, softball, and skating, and that he played guitar and enjoyed singing. He served in Canada from January 1943 until July 21, 1943, and in England from July of 1943 until June of 1944, when he died during the opening hours of the Normandy Landings. He was reported as missing in action and presumably died of wounds or drowned. With no known grave, he is remembered on the Bayeux Memorial at the Bayeux War Cemetery in Bayeux, France. On January 20, 1945, officials wrote to the family explaining the following regarding the fate of Harry’s landing craft as it approached the beach, “Ship MT 2 SAMBUT was shelled and set on fire. Orders were given to abandon ship. All personnel not killed by shellfire succeeded in getting off the ship. Private Moore was not killed by shellfire but was not recognized by anyone in the water and was not picked up by recue craft. The water was somewhat rough and crowded with troops swimming.” Private Harry Garnet Moore is one of the eleven casualties of June 6, 1944, with ties to Nova Scotia.

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