Lance Corporal Robert John Cecil Moate
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Date of Birth
1897
Date of Death
20 Jul 1917
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- Soldier
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L-Cpl Robert John Cecil Moate, 200634, 1/5th Battalion Bedfordshire Regiment, was killed in action in Palestine on July 20th, 1917, and has no known grave. He was aged 20 and the only son of widowed Lizzie Moate, of 23 Union Street, Luton.
Cecil Moate, as he was known, was under age for foreign service when he joined the Bedfords (No 4641) but went to Gallipoli in 1915. There he suffered from dysentery and was in hospital in Malta for six months before being posted to Egypt.
The former pupil of Dunstable Road School, who was born in Fenny Stratford in 1897, is listed in the 1911 Census as a 14-year-old errand boy living at 23 Union Street with mother Lizzie and sisters Lilian, aged 15, and Dorothy, aged 12. His father, Robert James, had died in 1899.
[The slideshow below includes a photograph of Cecil's medals and memorabilia, used with the permission of Mark Skeggs. Cecil Moate was his great uncle.]
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Author: Deejaya
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