Ronald Moore (British Army soldier) dating history

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Ronald Joseph Moore DCM (10 September 1915 – 15 August 1992) was a New Zealand soldier during World War II. He was the leader of 'Moore's March', a forced march through the Western Desert by survivors of a Long Range Desert Group patrol following the Battle of Kufra at Gebel Sherif on 31 January 1941 during which Moore's patrol was ambushed by the Italian Auto-Saharan Company, and posted missing, believed killed. Moore led three other soldiers on a ten-day, 209 mi (336 km) trek: Guardsmen J. Easton and A. Winchester and RAOC fitter A. Tighe. Easton was injured and later died, the first Scots Guardsman to die in North Africa. An Italian prisoner with them escaped. They found Sarra abandoned and headed for Kufra. Tighe, who had been left behind, was picked up by a Free French patrol, and when the patrol found Moore he was headed for Tekro 80 mi (130 km) away, barefooted, and was slightly annoyed at being stopped. They had survived on some jam and water, having lost their rations, headgear and footwear when the trucks were destroyed in the initial attack.