{"id":5609,"date":"2020-07-20T12:51:38","date_gmt":"2020-07-20T18:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/?page_id=5609"},"modified":"2022-11-16T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2022-11-16T18:21:43","slug":"charles-francis-moore","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/the-biographies\/charles-francis-moore\/","title":{"rendered":"Charles Francis Moore"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(Galesburg, Illinois, July 27, 1896 \u2013 Webster, New York, March 30, 1893).1<\/a><\/p>\n

Moore, on his mother\u2019s side, could trace Careys and Websters back to early seventeenth-century New England settlers.2<\/a> Some of Moore\u2019s ancestors on his father\u2019s side had settled in New Jersey in the mid-seventeenth century;3<\/a> his paternal great-grandfather came from that state to Michigan to farm. Moore\u2019s father was a somewhat peripatetic stationery company executive who lived for a time in Chicago, and then in Galesburg, Illinois, where he married Mary Louisa Carey and where Charles Francis Moore was born. Moore\u2019s sisters, both younger, were born in Chicago and Benton Harbor Michigan.4<\/a><\/p>\n

In 1915, Moore started at the University of Wisconsin at Madison with the class of 1919.5<\/a> The entry of the United States into the war in the spring of 1917 evidently prompted him to interrupt his studies. He joined the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps and attended ground school at the University of Illinois\u2019s School of Military Aeronautics at Urbana-Champaign, graduating September 1, 1917.6<\/a> Then, along with most of the men from his ground school class of about thirty, he chose or was chosen to go to Italy for flying training and thus sailed with the 150 men of the \u201cItalian\u201d or \u201csecond Oxford detachment\u201d to England. They departed New York on September 18, 1917, on the Carmania<\/i>, which made a brief stopover at Halifax before joining a convoy. During the voyage across the Atlantic, there was leisure time, but the men also took Italian lessons, conducted by Fiorello La Guardia, who sailed with them, and, once they entered dangerous waters, took turns at submarine watch.7<\/a>\u00a0When the\u00a0Carmania<\/i> docked at Liverpool on October 2, 1917, the men learned that they were not to go to Italy, but to stay in England. They travelled by train to Oxford where they spent the month of October repeating ground school at the Royal Flying Corps\u2019s No. 2 School of Military Aeronautics.<\/p>\n

After a month at Oxford, twenty members of the detachment were selected to begin flying training at Stamford in southwest Lincolnshire, while the remaining 130, including Moore, travelled farther north to Grantham to attend machine gun school at Harrowby Camp. They were in a holding pattern because there were not yet openings at training squadrons to accommodate them. A group of fifty men were able to set off for training squadrons on November 19, 1917, but Moore was among those who continued machine gun training through Thanksgiving and the end of November at Grantham,<\/p>\n

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Foss’s list of the men going to Stamford on Dec. 3, 1917.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Finally, on December 3, 1917, the remaining men were posted to flying schools. According to a list drawn up by second Oxford detachment member Fremont Cutler Foss, Moore was one of five men posted this day to No. 1 Training Depot Station at Stamford, thus joining the twenty who had gone there in early November. The others in his group were Linn Humphrey Forster, Edmond Thomas Keenan, Burr Watkins Leyson, and John Howard Raftery.8<\/a>\u00a0They probably would have begun their flying training at Stamford on JN-4s and Avros.<\/p>\n

By early March 1918 Moore had advanced sufficiently in his training to be recommended for his commission. His R.A.F. service record notes that \u201cSince joining R.F.C. flown D.H.6 Curtiss J.N.4 A.W. R.E.8.\u201d9<\/a>\u00a0The first two, the DH.6 and the Curtiss Jenny, were training planes. Assuming the \u201cA.W.\u201d was the Armstrong Whitworth FK.8, it and the R.E.8 were both operational planes, both of them two-seaters used for reconnaissance and bombing.<\/p>\n

General Pershing forwarded the recommendation for Moore\u2019s commission to Washington in a cable on March 9, 1918; the confirming cable is dated March 22, 1918.10<\/a> By this time Moore was stationed at No. 69 Training Squadron just south of Narborough in Norfolk. The next day, March 23, 1918, Moore was flying solo in an R.E.8 (B5130) when he tried to make a climbing turn at low altitude. The plane stalled and crashed, and he was seriously injured.11<\/a><\/p>\n

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Moore’s casualty card, from the RAF Museum in London.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I have found no details of his hospitalization or recovery, but his R.A.F. service record indicates that by August 1918 he was able to resume training, now on DH.9s, at No. 6 Training Depot Station at Boscombe Down near Salisbury. From there in mid-November 1918, shortly after the armistice, he was posted to No. 1 Fighting School at Ayr and Turnberry for a few days before being withdrawn from the R.A.F. and sent to the American Rest Camp at Knotty Ash near Liverpool.12<\/a><\/p>\n

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Detail from Moore’s R.A.F. service record.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Moore travelled home on the S. S.\u00a0Lapland<\/i> with a group of officers that included his fellow second Oxford detachment member John Lavalle, who had also been injured while training.13<\/a>\u00a0The\u00a0Lapland<\/i>\u00a0sailed from Liverpool on November 22, 1918, and arrived at New York on December 4, 1918.<\/p>\n

Moore returned to the University of Wisconsin and was able to graduate with the class of 1921.14<\/a> For a time he lived in Florida, working for Photostat Corporation\u2014hence his being described as a \u201cSoutherner\u201d when his engagement to Ada Virginia McWhinney was announced in 1928.15<\/a> He and his wife soon settled near Rochester, New York, where they remained until their deaths in the early 1980s.16<\/a><\/p>\n

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Notes<\/h3>\n
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(For complete bibliographic entries, please consult the list of\u00a0works and web pages cited<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

1<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Moore\u2019s place and date of birth are taken from Ancestry.com\u00a0U.S., World War II Draft Registration Cards, 1942<\/i>, record for Charles Francis Moore. His place and date of death are taken from \u201cDeaths (Monroe County) [1983].\u201d\u00a0 The picture of Moore is a yearbook photo, taken from p. 133 of Coxon, ed., The 1922 Badger<\/em>, and is the only image of Moore I have been able to find.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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2<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See Cary,\u00a0John Cary the Plymouth Pilgrim<\/i>, pp. 235\u201336 (section 238), on Moore\u2019s maternal great-grandfather and grandfather; and Webster,\u00a0History and Genealogy of the Gov. John Webster Family of Connecticut<\/i>, p. 736, on his maternal grandmother.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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3<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See Lambert,\u00a0Roger Lambert and His Descendants<\/i>, p. 14, on Moore\u2019s Lambert and Rogers ancestors.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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4<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0On Moore\u2019s family, see documents available at Ancestry.com; on his father, see, for example, \u201cStadt-Neuigkeiten,\u201d p. 5.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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5<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0The Badger 1917<\/i>, p. 448.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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6<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cGround School Graduations [for September 1, 1917].\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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7<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See Hooper,\u00a0Somewhere in France<\/i>, Chapter 1.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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8<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Foss, Papers, \u201cCadets of Italian Detachment Posted Dec 3rd.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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9<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See The National Archives (United Kingdom),\u00a0Royal Air Force officers’ service records 1918\u20131919<\/i>, record for Charles Francis Moore.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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10<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Cablegrams 702-S and 967-R.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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11<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See \u201cMoore, C.F.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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12<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See Moore\u2019s R.A.F. service record, cited above.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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13<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0See War Department. Office of the Quartermaster General. Army Transport Service,\u00a0Lists of Incoming Passengers, 1917 – 1938<\/i>, Passenger list for Casual Officers, Air Service, on S. S.\u00a0Lapland<\/i>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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14<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0Coxon, ed.,\u00a0The 1922 Badger<\/i>, p. 133.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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15<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cMiss Ada McWhinney to Wed Southerner.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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16<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u201cDeaths (Monroe County)\u201d [1982] and \u201cDeaths (Monroe County\u201d [1983].<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

(Galesburg, Illinois, July 27, 1896 \u2013 Webster, New York, March 30, 1893).1 Moore, on his mother\u2019s side, could trace Careys and Websters back to early seventeenth-century New England settlers.2 Some of Moore\u2019s ancestors on his father\u2019s side had settled in New Jersey in the mid-seventeenth century;3 his paternal great-grandfather came from that state to Michigan … Continue reading “Charles Francis Moore”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5619,"parent":30,"menu_order":88,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5609","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5609","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5609"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5609\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5956,"href":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5609\/revisions\/5956"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/30"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5619"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/parr-hooper.cmsmcq.com\/2OD\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5609"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}