Private Thomas Granville Moore was born in Church Warsop, Nottinghamshire on the 17th of March 1908, the son of George and Mary Moore. He married Ellen Greaves in 1931.   

Thomas enlisted into the General Service Corps at Mansfield in 1940 and transferred to the Sherwood Foresters on the 25th of August 1942. He served with the 2nd Battalion “B” Company.  

The 2nd Battalion were training new recruits and re-kitting in England at the time Thomas transferred. In the November of 1942, they moved to Tunisa, as part of the 3rd Brigade of the 1st Infantry Division of the 1st Army. In 1943 Thomas and the 2nd Battalion moved to Anzio, Italy. 

Sadly, Thomas was severely wounded on the 31st of January 1944 at Campeleone, Italy and died of his wounds on the 11th of February, age 35 years.  He is buried in Anzio War Cemetery, II,L,3 Italy. His grave bears the personal inscription: ‘YEARS CANNOT FADE NOR SHADOWS DIM THE PRECIOUS THOUGHTS WE KEEP OF HIM’.