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Name: MOORE, Montague Shadworth Seymour 'Monty' VC (Major)

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Birth Date: 9 Oct 1896 Worthing

Death Date: 12 Sep 1966 Kiganjo

First Date: 1921

Last Date: 1966

Profession: Second warden of Serengeti after it was declared a game sanctuary in 1929. Game Warden of Tanganyika. KAR and later Game Ranger

Area: Serengeti, Banagi Hill, Tanganyika, 1964 Glen Thego Kiganjo

Married: At Newton Abbot Sept 1933 Audrey Yolande Penn Milton b. 11 Dec 1903 Totnes, d. 3 June 1982 Bovey Tracey

Children: Montague Charles Penn

Book Reference: Serengeti, Safari Trail, Breath, Moore, Hut, Red 22, Chandler

War Service: Royal Hampshire

School: Bedford School

General Information:

Moore - Monty is, of course, the Game Ranger and my husband. After the War, the campaigns in North Russia, Ireland and Constantinople, Monty, who won his Victoria Cross in the Ypres Salient in 1917 at the age of 20, found that Europe held no more charms for him, so in 1921 he transferred to the KAR and was sent to Tanganyika. From the very first he was interested in the game and spent most weekends and all short leaves, hunting on foot ....….
In 1926, his 5 years with the KAR completed, Monty was faced with the awful thought of returning to peaceful soldiering in England, so he sent in his papers and applied to Mr Swynnerton, the Game Warden, for a post in the Game Preservation Dept. of Tanganyika. He got it. ................ In 1928 he was with the Prince of Wales on a shooting trip and early in 1931 he took over the Serengeti range. He has been stationed at Banagi ever since.
VConline On 20th September 1917 near Tower Hamlets, east of Ypres, Belgium, Second Lieutenant Moore volunteered to make a fresh attack on a final objective and went forward with some 70 men, but they met such heavy opposition that when he arrived at his objective he had only one sergeant and four men. Nothing daunted he at once bombed a large dug-out, taking 28 prisoners, two machine-guns and a light field-gun. Gradually more officers and men arrived, numbering about 60 and he held the post for 36 hours beating off counter-attacks, until his force was reduced to 10 men. He eventually got away his wounded and withdrew under cover of thick mist.
Kevin Patience - Cremated in Nairobi and ashes scattered in Serengeti and Nairobi National Parks
Gazette 24 Feb 1967 probate says he died at Nyeri 9 Sep 1966

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