South Yorkshire Times – Saturday 25 July 1942

Missing Guardsman.

News was received last week-end by Mrs. R. Moore, 70, Chancer Road, Mexborough, that her husband, Guardsman Stanley Moore, of the Coldstream Guards, was missing.”

The report stated that he had been missing since June 20th.

Guardsman Moore joined up in June, 1940, and served in various Parts of the country before volunteering for overseas service last year, since when he has been on active service in the Middle East.

Before joining the Forces Guardsman Moore was a member of the staff of the Machine Department of the “South Yorkshire Times” Printing Co., Ltd., and in the days of the “Times” Sports Club took an active part In cricket and football.

His father, Mr. A. Moore died as a result of service in the last war, and when the borough Rotary Club was formed Guardsman Moore was one of boys “adopted” by the club.

In a letter to a “Times” Office colleague in June, Guardsman Moore referred to a holiday he had just spent at Alexandria. He goes on: I also dropped across someone I have been wanting to see for a long time, Jack Stacey, a sergeant in our lot. I expect you will remember him, as he knows you.” The printing of a menu card in a cafe came in for his criticism; he says, “Talk about spelling, I have never seen anything like it, ‘egg sangwishes, bagon and egs,’ etc. I cannot remember them all, but the compositor who set it had a definite preference for ‘g’s.’ I had a look round one small printing office; they were all English printing machines and nearly all English type, but of course it was all native labour.”

Mrs. Moore, who is working for the N.A.A.F.I., has two sons.