Tom Moore’s Story

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Arthur William Thomas Moore, known as Tom, was a stretcher bearer and machine gunner with the 8th Battalion Middlesex during the Second World War. He suffered from exhaustion after the Normandy campaign and following hospital treatment was transferred to GHQ troops, a clandestine unit working from the house of an imprisoned Nazi official in Suchteln, Germany, where he operated the telephone exchange. It was whilst working here that he learnt the war was to come to an end two weeks before VE Day actually happened. Tom was later promoted to Corporal before buying his way out of the army for £50 in June 1948. He now lives in Reading and is due to receive an award from France for his service to the country. Image: Tom Moore Interview with Tom Moore by Janice Hunter