Description
British South Africa Company Medal, reverse Matabeleland 1893, 1805 Lance Corporal Percival “Percy” Lennon Moore, Bechuanaland Border Police.
Officially engraved in usual style: “1895 Lce Corpl P.L. Moore. B.B. Police.
Percival Lennon Moore, was born in Cape Town South Africa circa 1869.
The son of Joseph Ross Moore and Isabella Marcella Moore (Born MacLeod).
His father Joseph was an Auctioneer from Cape Town, (1833-1874), the son of Edward and Naomi.
Unfortunately for Percy, the youngest of 7 siblings, their father Joseph died on the Edinburgh Castle Boat off Maderia on 31st March 1874. He ran the auction house Caffyn & Moore with Robert Henry Caffyn.
He first served in the Matabeleland campaign of 1893, as a Lance Corporal of the Bechuanaland Border Police.
Confirmed on the medal roll which notes his address as the Cape of Good Hope Building Society in Cape Town.
In peacetime he was a Book Keeper, so it seems he was working in this capacity for the Building Society.
He mounted up once more during the Anglo Boer War of 1899-1902, now joining Roberts’ Horse, serving with the regiment from 26th December 1899 until 3rd January 1901 when he was discharged as medically unfit.
For these services he earned the QSA with bars for Cape Colony, Orange Free State & South Africa 1901.
He never married, and died aged 52 on 27th August 1921.
He had been working as a Book Keeper for the Longs Hotel in Johannesburg. A popular hotel in Johannesburg, owned by “T. C. Long”
