PVT Clyde Edward Moore

courtesy of Angela Whitaker-Baker

PVT Clyde Edward Moore was born 16 Sep 1919 in Castlewood, Virginia. He was the 4th of the 6 children of Walter Riley and Nannie Virginia (Dean) Moore. His father was a coal miner. His father died of pneumonia in July 1930. His mother re-married and her second husband William Gordon Jessee was a farmer. Clyde worked the farm with his step-father. Hard times during the depression caused Clyde to enlist in the Civilian Conservation Corps and in 1940 he was a member of Company 3361.

Drafted in May 1941, it is likely that due to the policies in place at the time that he was sent to Fort Meade, Maryland for training and assigned to D Company 116th Infantry. He would then have trained with the unit there and in the Carolina maneuvers before going to Camp Blanding, Florida and then to England aboard the Queen Mary in September 1942. Once in England he trained with his unit for the planned amphibious landing that was to be part of the invasion of occupied Europe. PVT Moore was killed in action taking part in that action on 6 Jun 1944.

PVT Moore was repatriated and is memorialized at Temple Hill Memorial Park in Castlewood, Virginia.