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then on the 4th April to No. 11 Operational Training Unit, Westcott, Buckinghamshire, where he crewed up and completed his training as Air Bomber of Wellington bomber aircraft. Late in July he converted to Stirling, bomber aircraft to No. 1657 Conversion Unit, Shepherd's Grove, Suffolk and in August converted to Lancaster aircraft at Woolfox Lodge, Rutland, before posting on the 28th August to No. 75 (New Zealand) Squadron at Mepal, Cambridge. From this base as Air Bomber of Lancaster aircraft he took part in seventeen operational flights the targets including Saarbrucken, Emmerich, Duisberg (2), Stuttgart, Cologne (2), and Hamburg in Germany, Eindhoven and the Walcheren Dyke in Holland, enemy troops, and Headquarters at Le Havre (3), gun positions at Cape Gris Nez and Calais, and a sea mining sortie to the Kattegat. Late in November he took part in three operational flights to Bonn, Mulheim and Hanover all in Germany.

Flight Sergeant Moore was the air bomber of a Lancaster aircraft engaged in a raid against this latter target on the night of the 5/6th January 1945. The aircraft failed to return to its base and all the crew including Flight Sergeant Moore were classified as missing. Later information was received from an official German source through the International Red Cross, that he had lost his life and was buried in the New Parish Cemetery at Bad Zwischenahn, 9 miles North West of Oldenburg, Germany. In due course his death was officially presumed to have occurred on the 5th January 1945.

5/2/10296 AS2.
632 Hours of Air Bomber.

Mr. R.J. MOORE (F) (right aligned)
Bell Street, (right aligned)
MARTON. (right aligned & underlined)