{"id":54,"date":"2016-10-14T15:38:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T14:38:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/?p=54"},"modified":"2016-10-14T16:03:17","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T15:03:17","slug":"moorey-jesse-c-1894-1915","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/rochesterborstalfirstworldwar\/2016\/10\/14\/moorey-jesse-c-1894-1915\/","title":{"rendered":"Moorey, Jesse (c.1894-1915)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jesse Moorey was one of two brothers who served and died for the King’s Royal Rifle Corps – the other was Henry Moorey<\/a>. \u00a0More of the Moorey family background can be found in Henry’s biographical entry.<\/p>\n

Jesse Moorey enlisted for the 1st<\/sup> Battalion of the King\u2019s Royal Rifle Corps<\/a> (KRRC) as a Rifleman on 15 May 1915, when he was 21 years old. His older brother, Henry Moorey, had joined the 2nd<\/sup> Battalion of the KRRC, and died of his wounds in January 2015. \u00a0Up to this point, Moorey had been working as a general labourer. His service number was R\/12896<\/p>\n

At a medical examination around the time of his enlistment, Jesse was 21 years and 5 months old when he enlisted, and he was 5 foot 10.5 inches tall.\u00a0 Jesse had married Bertha Banks on 4 July 1915 in Strood; presumably just before he was shipped to France with the Rifles.\u00a0 Bertha was from Snodland, further south down the Medway Valley on its western side, and in 1911, was working in the local paper mill<\/a>.\u00a0 Tragically, the Mooreys\u2019 marriage would barely last a month before Jesse was involved in the Battle of the Somme.\u00a0 He listed as missing on 27 July 1916.\u00a0 Moorey was one of the 73,367 soldiers who died during this Battle, and he has no known grave.\u00a0 His name is on the Thiepval Memorial<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After the war, Bertha would marry Frederick A. Burney, a carpenter in the cement works, who was also from Snodland, in 1919.\u00a0 Burney was also a Rifleman, but in the 12th<\/sup> Battalion of the KRRC (service number R\/3392).\u00a0 Burney was transferred to AR Class Z 19 2 19.\u00a0 Burney is listed on the Snodland Roll of Honour<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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References:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Moorey:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Class:\u00a0RG13<\/em>; Piece:\u00a0720<\/em>; Folio:\u00a022<\/em>; Page:\u00a033<\/em><\/p>\n

Ancestry.com.\u00a01901 England Census<\/em>\u00a0[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2005.<\/p>\n

Banks:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Class:\u00a0RG14<\/em>; Piece:\u00a03974<\/em>; Schedule Number:\u00a027<\/em><\/p>\n

Source Information<\/p>\n

Ancestry.com.\u00a01911 England Census<\/em>\u00a0[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.<\/p>\n

Original data:\u00a0Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911<\/em>. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA), 1911.<\/p>\n

Burney:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Class:\u00a0RG14<\/em>; Piece:\u00a03973<\/em>; Schedule Number:\u00a0172<\/em><\/p>\n

Source Information<\/p>\n

Ancestry.com.\u00a01911 England Census<\/em>\u00a0[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011.<\/p>\n

Original data:\u00a0Census Returns of England and Wales, 1911<\/em>. Kew, Surrey, England: The National Archives of the UK (TNA), 1911.<\/p>\n

The National Archives of the UK; Kew, Surrey, England;\u00a0WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls<\/em>; Class:\u00a0WO 329<\/em>; Piece Number:\u00a02771<\/em><\/p>\n

Ancestry.com.\u00a0UK, WWI Service Medal and Award Rolls, 1914-1920<\/em>\u00a0[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2014.<\/p>\n

Ancestry.com.\u00a0British Army WWI Service Records, 1914-1920<\/em>\u00a0[database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2008.Original data:\u00a0The National Archives of the UK (TNA): Public Record Office (PRO).<\/p>\n

War Office: Soldiers\u2019 Documents, First World War \u2018Burnt Documents\u2019 (Microfilm Copies); (The National Archives Microfilm Publication WO363); Records created or inherited by the War Office, Armed Forces, Judge Advocate General, and related bodies; The National Archives of the UK (TNA), Kew, Surrey, England.<\/p>\n