Source: August 1918 casualty.
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Family Search: When Private John Moore was born on 13 November 1894, in Malton, Toronto Township, Peel, Ontario, Canada, his father, John Moore, was 51 and his mother, Mary Elizabeth Short, was 41. He lived in Ontario, Canada in 1894 and Peel, Ontario, Canada in 1901. He registered for military service in 1915. In 1915, at the age of 21, his occupation is listed as farmer. He died on 28 August 1918, in Vis-en-Artois, Pas-de-Calais, France, at the age of 23, and was buried in Vis-en-Artois British Cemetery and Memorial, Haucourt, Pas-de-Calais, France.
His family posted a memorial remembrance in the Brampton Conservator regularly.
Private John Moore. Regimental no. 775521.
This man enlisted with the 126th Overseas Battalion at Brampton, Ontario, on 15 November 1918. He was a farmer by trade and had no prior military experience.
He arrived in England on the SS Empress of Britain on 24 August 1916 and was admitted to hospital on 1 September 1916 at Aldershot. He was discharged on 2 October 1916 and on 15 October 1916 transferred to the 116th Battalion at Bramshott.
He was transferred to the 18th Battalion for active combat duty on 28 November 1916, and arrived at the Canadian Base Depot the next day. on 3 December 1916 he was “in the field” with the 18th Battalion.
He was ill with acute bronchitis on 11 March 1917 and was sent to England for treatment.
Recuperated, he was sent back to France and arrived at No. 2 Canadian Base Depot on 22 November 1917, arriving “in the field” on 11 December 1917.
He served with the 18th Battalion without interruption until his death from a German machine gun bullet on 28 August 1918.
“Pte. John Moore, of Malton, left his occupation as farmer to enlist in the 126th Peel Battalion, donning the khaki on his 21st birthday. He was first transferred to the 116th Batt., and then before leaving for France to the 18th Batt. He went to England with the rest of the 1-2-6 boys in August, 1916, and reached France in the latter part of November. He was killed instantly by a machine gun bullet when taking part in the first attack on the Hindenburg Line. Pte. Moore, who was the son of John Moore, of Malton, Ont., has six soldier cousins in the service.”
World War 1 issue of the Brampton Conservator
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 