Born at Faversham, Kent, c.1834.
Enlisted at Leeds on the 3rd of January 1855.
Age: 21 years 4 months.
Height: 5' 8".
Trade: Labourer.
Features: Fresh complexion. Brown eyes.
Joined the regiment in the Crimea from Cork on the 15th of July 1855.
Transferred to the 7th Hussars at Dublin on the 12th of August 1857. Regimental No 137.
To India aboard the "Greenwich" on the 27th of August 1857.
Confined, 16-21 of February 1858. Tried by a Regimental Court-martial on the 22nd of February, given 50 lashes and imprisoned until the 20th of April 1858.
Is shown on the muster roll as "being in military confinement during the Siege of Lucknow."
Embarked for England from India on the 20th of April 1867.
Re-engaged for a further 12 years service at Canterbury on the 30th of August 1867.
Discharged from Newbridge on the 15th of September 1879, as "Claimed discharge, after completion of second period of limited engagement."
Served 24 years 137 days.
In Turkey and the Crimea: 9 monthsIn India: 9 years 5 months.
Conduct: "very good". In possession of five Good Conduct badges.
Ten times entered in the Regimental Defaulter's book. Once tried by Court-martial.
To live at, near Newbridge, Co. Kildare on discharge.
Documents confirm the award of the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, Turkish Medal, Mutiny medal and the Long Service medal.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasp for Sebastopol, and the Turkish medal.
Mutiny medal without clasp.
Awarded the Long Service & Good Conduct medal (without gratuity) on the 1st of July 1876.
1891 Census
113 Park Road, Freemantle, Southampton.
James Moore, 58, Army Pensioner, Faversham.
Maria, 56.
1901 Census
Elm Tree Inn, Fareham.
James Moore, 68, Beer Retailer, Faversham.
Maria, 66.
Death registered
Maria Moore, 70, June Quarter 1906, Fareham.
1911 Census
Stonedene Cottage, Swanwick, Southampton.
James Moore, 78, widower, born Fareham.
Living as a border with Eleanor Knocker and her family.
James Moore entered the Royal Hospital Chelsea as an In-Pensioner on the 1st of July 1911. He was then 79 years and 9 months of age and said to be "Incapable", in possession of a pension of 1/2d. per day, and receiving an "Old Age" pension of 4/- per week. The Admission Book confirms other known details and adds that he was formerly living at 135, Wells Road, Stanwick, Southampton.
Death registered
James Moore, 92, March Quarter 1925, Chelsea.
He died at Chelsea on the 1st of March 1925 and was buried in Brookwood Cemetery. No headstone was erected.
Registration of deaths, and Census information for 1891, 1901 & 1911, kindly provided by Chris Poole.
Note: The 1881 Census shows a man of this name living at No 25 The Broadway, Faversham, Kent, a Greengrocer, aged 47, born at Faversham, Kent, with his wife, Harriet, aged 47, born at Sandgate, Kent, and seven children, the eldest 18, and the others of school age. However when compared with the later Census data this does not appear to be 1468 James Moore, but a man of the same name.