Claude Moore


Claude Douglas Hamilton Moore was a British Army officer.

Military career

Moore was commissioned into the Suffolk Regiment on 27 November 1895. After transferring to the Royal Warwickshire Regiment, he fought in the Second Boer War and also saw action on the Western Front in the early stages of the First World War for which he was appointed a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. He became commander of the 157th Brigade serving in the Middle Eastern theatre in October 1916 before later becoming commander of the Ahmednagar Brigade in India in January 1920.
He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1925 Birthday Honours and became General Officer Commanding 42nd Infantry Division in March 1927 before his death in September 1928.