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Corporal Harold Moody of the RAMC (Royal Army Medical Corps), aged 22, was the recipient in Mar 1916 of the Distinguished Conduct Medal, awarded for “Distinguished Conduct in the Field”. The London Gazette of 11 Mar 1916 contained Harold’s citation, stating that it was,
“…For conspicuous bravery in collecting and bringing in, on his own initiative, wounded officers and men of other regiments. On another occasion he brought in without orders, two wounded officers to a dressing station, under heavy fire.”
Harold arrived in France on 18 Aug 1914, the Beverley Guardian 2 Mar 1918 noted that he had been wounded three times, latterly in the leg, but noted he would soon be fit again for service. In 1918 he was attached to the 15th Brigade of Royal Field Artillery; his duties involved front line and battlefield support and evacuation of wounded soldiers. He was also awarded the 1914 Star (the “Mons Star”) and the War and Victory Medals. He was also a British recipient of the Russian Cross of St George given to lower ranks for “undaunted courage”.
Harold was born in Beverley the 20 Jul 1893 and baptised at Beverley Minster the 29 September 1893, his father Aaron Moody, of Garton-on-the-Wolds worked as a tanners’ labourer and his mother Annie Clark was born 1866. They lived in Keldgate. Harold had four siblings: sisters Elizabeth born 1890, Florence born 1897, Gladys 1901, and brother Albert born 1894. His mother and Gladys both died in 1901. Harold attended the Wesleyan School, Spencer Street.
Harold returned to Beverley and is recorded as a tanners’s labourer in 1929 and then a farm labourer in 1939 when he was lodging at 26 Beckside. He married Margaret Langton in 1942 and they had two children, Arthur born 1943 and Allan born 1944. Harold died in 1966 and his wife in 1973.
Harold is remembered on the Keldgate Street Shrine, Beverley as is his brother Albert who served in the Army Supply Corps and then in the East Riding Constabulary from 1919 to 1944.
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