Walter Sydney Moore

Walter, born in Stamford on October 10th 1894 was the only son of Walter and Edith Fanny Moore, both Stamford-born. His father was a compositor printer and the family lived at 13 Queen’s Walk. There was a younger girl Winifred (born 1896) who was apprenticed to a dressmaker. One other sibling died in infancy. Walter was a joiner’s apprentice in 1911.

Walter did not serve in WWI until 1917 when he joined the RAF as an air mechanic. No other records are available but it is unlikely that he served abroad. Several local young men joined the RAF Training School established at Wittering Aerodrome in 1917 and were still in training there when the war ended.

After the war in the autumn of 1920, Walter married Lucy Elizabeth Dixon, the daughter of the coachman at Wothorpe House where the family lived in the coachman’s cottage. Walter and Elizabeth lived in Stamford after their wedding and Walter died in Stamford in September 1971.