Sergeant, Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Born: June 25th 19221
Died: August 27th 1944
Age at death: 22
Killed when his plane was shot down off the coast of Denmark, August 27th 1944.
Peter was born on 25 June 1922 to William Moore and his wife Eryl (née Lewis) of Hove, Sussex. At the time Peter entered the College his father was an actuary. In 1944 Moore completed his RAF training, and was assigned to 57 Squadron at RAF East Kirkby in Lincolnshire, flying Lancaster bombers. To assist with the Allied advance, both before and after D-Day on 6 June 1944, he attacked a variety of targets in France, including coastal towns, a wireless station and a tank depot.
On the night of 26 August he took part in his first bombing mission against Germany, targeting Königsberg (now Kaliningrad in Russia), but his plane was shot down by a German Messerschmitt Bf 110 fighter near Tunø Island off the east coast of Denmark. The wreck was never found, and he is commemorated at the Runnymede Memorial to air force personnel with no known grave.
Peter was unlucky to fall victim to food poisoning the month before his death and miss a mission on the caves at Saint-Leu d’Esserent in France, which were used as storage depots for the deadly new V-1 bombs: his plane was shot down on that sortie, but the entire crew survived, with four of the six even evading capture.