Biographical Notes
Mentioned in Watson Report:
Spotted periscope on 24/11.
“He showed great strength of character, both by his unstinted expenditure of energy on various tasks and by the cheering and steadying influence he exerted on the remainder of the crew of his raft. It was probably owing to the former that he succumbed on the day of the rescue.”
Dunedin Society note: Watson’s report that Robert Moore “succumbed on the day of the rescue” is, thankfully, incorrect. Able Seaman Moore survived, as the report in the Belfast Telegraph of 9 January 1942 report, below, attests.
With the information in this article that Moore was one of 19 survivors on a Carley raft originally holding 35 men, we can reasonably place Moore on the raft with, eg, Milner and Titheridge (Raft C7 in the article on the rafts on this website here). While the numbers are slightly different, they are within the margin of reporting error that one could expect to have emerged from the chaos of the rescue.