Arthur James Moar
- Born: 16 Jun 1890, Angas Plains, South Australia
- Died: 31 Jul 1917, Ypres, Belgium (Great War) at age 27
Noted events in his life were:
• source. Peter Wallace who writes:
Notes for ARTHUR JAMES MOAR:
Regimental number 11067
Religion Church of England
Occupation Dairy farmer
Address Milang , South Australia
Marital status Single
Age at embarkation 25
Next of kin Mother, Mrs I. Moar, same address
Enlistment date 16 August 1915
Rank on enlistment Lance Corporal Driver
Unit name S.T25.16.3C25
Rank from Nominal Roll Lance Corporal
Unit from Nominal Roll 43rd Battalion
Fate Killed in Action 31 July 1917
Age at death from cemetery records 27
Place of burial No known grave
Commemoration details The Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial (Panel 27), Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial (so named because the road led to the town of Menin) was constructed on the site of a gateway in the eastern walls of the old Flemish town of Ypres, Belgium, where hundreds of thousands of allied troops passed on their way to the front, the Ypres salient, the site from April 1915 to the end of the war of some of the fiercest fighting of the war.
The Memorial was conceived as a monument to the 350,000 men of the British Empire who fought in the campaign. Inside the arch, on tablets of Portland stone, are inscribed the names of 56,000 men, including 6,178 Australians, who served in the Ypres campaign and who have no known grave.
The opening of the Menin Gate Memorial on 24 July 1927 so moved the Australian artist Will Longstaff that he painted 'The Menin Gate at Midnight', which portrays a ghostly army of the dead marching past the Menin Gate. The painting now hangs in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra , at the entrance of which are two medieval stone lions presented to the Memorial by the City of Ypres in 1936.
Since the 1930s, with the brief interval of the German occupation in the Second World War, the City of Ypres has conducted a ceremony at the Memorial at dusk each evening to commemorate those who died in the Ypres campaign.
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
Australian War Memorial 137
Miscellaneous information from cemetery records Parents: William and Isabella MOAR, Milang , South Australia
Family/military connections Brother: 5383 Pte Lewis Harvey MOAR, Australian Army Veterinary Corps, returned to Australia , 1 February 1918.
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