Letter from the Ministry of Defence to Richard Moore's daughter

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Title

Letter from the Ministry of Defence to Richard Moore's daughter

Description

A letter from the Air Historical Branch (RAF) concerning the loss of Flight Sergeant Richard Moore (911578) on a daylight operation to Hildesheim on 22 March 1945. The members of Richard Moore's aircrew are listed as Sergeant W Cummins (Flight Engineer), Flight Sergeant J Marrinan (Air Bomber), Sergeant J Hanlon (Navigator), Warrant Officer L Reed (Wireless Operator/Air Gunner), Sergeant F Hume (Mid Upper Gunner) and Flight Sergeant C J Johnson (Rear Gunner). Details of the men's final resting places are provided.

Additional information on Richard ("Dick") Moore and his crew is available via the IBCC Losses Database.

Date

2021-08-31

Temporal Coverage

Language

Format

One typewritten letter

Rights

This content is available under a CC BY-NC 4.0 International license (Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0). It has been published ‘as is’ and may contain inaccuracies or culturally inappropriate references that do not necessarily reflect the official policy or position of the University of Lincoln or the International Bomber Command Centre. For more information, visit https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ and https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/omeka/legal.

Identifier

EHatchMLEtheringtonSM20210831-0001, EHatchMLEtheringtonSM20210831-0002, EHatchMLEtheringtonSM20210831-0003

Citation

Great Britain. Ministry of Defence, “Letter from the Ministry of Defence to Richard Moore's daughter,” IBCC Digital Archive, accessed September 10, 2026, https://ibccdigitalarchive.lincoln.ac.uk/collections/document/56253.