Albert's Story.
Son of Mr. Henry and Mrs. Emma Moores of 30, Dane Street, Congleton, Cheshire and 42, West Road, Congleton, Cheshire and husband of Mrs, Alexina Moores (nee Booth), of 6, Garden Street, Congleton. They were married at St. James Church, Congleton in 1916.he had six sisters, Sarah Ann, Hannah, Emma Alice, Edith, Beatrice and Hilda. He also had five brothers, Charles Henry, James Arthur, Harry and Leonard. He was a self-employed Greengrocer, with a shop at West Road, previously he had been a Market Gardener.
Private Albert Moores enlisted in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers at Chester on the 21st of March 1916 at the age of 36. He was posted to the 12th Battalion on arrival for training at Kimnel Park, North Wales on the 24th. On the 15th of June 1916 he was posted to the 9th Battalion which came under the orders of the 58th Brigade, 19th (Western) Division prior to embarking for France. He received terrible wounds to his right shoulder and right leg at Pozieres, when struck by an H.E. shell on the 22 nd of July 1916, shortly after arriving at the front. He was conveyed to Quarry Place Military Hospital, Shrewsbury, and from there to the Surgical Home, Baschurch, Shropshire. After being treated there he was removed to the Quinta Red Cross Hospital, Congleton, where everything possible was done, but little hopes were entertained of a permanent cure. His wife, however, never lost hope and accompanied him to five different hospitals in Manchester for treatment, but little progress was perceptible in the broken soldier, and he was discharged on the 21 st of February 1918, while serving in the 3rd Battalion.
We think of our lads who have helped to bring peace to a tortured world with pardonable pride, but there is a sad side to the accomplishments of our soldiers in that they mean the loss of husbands and fathers who will walk the familiar streets of the old town no more. This is the one grim spectre, and it has brought to the home of Mrs. Moores the bitterest blow and evoked a grief stricken tragedy, the pathos of which can only be realised by those who were called to witness the nerve trying strain of the vigil by the bedside of the wife who nursed her broken husband for the last twelve months of his life. The departed soldier was regularly attended by Doctor Moir, who did all that was possible to alleviate his suffering, and whose attention and skill have done much in the midst of acute domestic suffering during the stressful times through which we have passed. However careful nursing and medical attention proved of no avail, and another name has been added to Congleton's Roll of Honoured Dead.
Extract from the Congleton Chronicle 1919
The Funeral.
The funeral took place on Sunday at St Mary's Church, Astbury amid many manifestations of sorrow, a large number of friends being present at the graveside, while many discharged and demobilised soldiers followed. Friends and relatives showed a token of love by sending floral tributes, floral offerings that symbolised a surrendered life for the Cause of Humanity, for had he not really given it for his country, although he did not die on the field of battle, while many people dropped their blinds as a last token of respect.
The chief mourners were, Mrs. Alexina Moores (widow), Mrs, Emma Moores (mother), Messr's. Harry, Charles Henry, and Jas Moores, (brothers) Mrs. C. Smith (Macclesfield), Mrs. W. Mottershead (Manchester), and Mrs. A. Minshull (Kidsgrove), (sisters), Misses. Edith Beatrice and Linda Moores, (sisters), Jack, Albert, Simeon, Harold and Leonard Moores (nephews, Mr. George Colclough, Mr. John Colclough, Mr. John Gaunt, Mr. Walter Evans, Mr. Frank Evans, and Harry Smith (nephew). The bearers were Messrs' William Tomlinson, George Tweates, George Tomlinson, Sam Thorley, Alex Rutland and Charles Frost, all demobilised soldiers.
Mrs. Albert Moores tenders her sincere thanks for messages of sympathy and kind enquiries also for floral tributes received in her recent sad bereavement.
The Cheshire Roll of Honour would like to thank John and Christopher Pullen for the information on Albert.