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Flying Officer Douglas Keith Moores

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Flying Officer Douglas Keith Moores

Birth
Yarmouth, Yarmouth County, Nova Scotia, Canada
Death
3 Aug 1944 (aged 22)
France
Burial
Cintheaux, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France Add to Map
Plot
XIV. A. 1.
Memorial ID
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Flying Officer Moores lost his life in the crash of 438 Squadron's Hawker Typhoon IB (#MN321) aircraft. It is thought that the Typhoon was hit by anti-aircraft fire which resulted in its crashing.
Military Service-
Rank: Flying Officer
Trade:
Service Number: J/17649
Age: 22
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: RCAF 438 Squadron

A clerk by trade, residing on Porter Street in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 1 Oct 1940 in Yarmouth.

Son of Elsie Perry (née Hatfield) Moores of Porter Street in Yarmouth and son of the late Clinton Ray Moores; husband of Elizabeth (née Shearwood) Moores of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England [they married in late 1942 in London, England]; father of one son, Robert.

Flying Officer Douglas Keith Moores is commemorated on Page 397 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.
Flying Officer Moores lost his life in the crash of 438 Squadron's Hawker Typhoon IB (#MN321) aircraft. It is thought that the Typhoon was hit by anti-aircraft fire which resulted in its crashing.
Military Service-
Rank: Flying Officer
Trade:
Service Number: J/17649
Age: 22
Force: Air Force
Unit: Royal Canadian Air Force
Division: RCAF 438 Squadron

A clerk by trade, residing on Porter Street in Yarmouth, Nova Scotia, Canada, he enlisted in the RCAF on 1 Oct 1940 in Yarmouth.

Son of Elsie Perry (née Hatfield) Moores of Porter Street in Yarmouth and son of the late Clinton Ray Moores; husband of Elizabeth (née Shearwood) Moores of Stockton-on-Tees, County Durham, England [they married in late 1942 in London, England]; father of one son, Robert.

Flying Officer Douglas Keith Moores is commemorated on Page 397 of Canada's Second World War Book of Remembrance.


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  • Maintained by: SJB Hearn
  • Originally Created by: War Graves
  • Added: Aug 6, 2010
  • Find a Grave Memorial ID:
  • Find a Grave, database and images (https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/56157270/douglas_keith-moores: accessed ), memorial page for Flying Officer Douglas Keith Moores (5 Jan 1922–3 Aug 1944), Find a Grave Memorial ID 56157270, citing Bretteville-Sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery, Cintheaux, Departement du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France; Maintained by SJB Hearn (contributor 46864594).