Ralph Ingram Moore was killed instantaneously by an enemy shell on October 7th, 1917, whilst serving as Captain the Australian Imperial Forces in France. He obtained his commission in the New South Wales Expeditionary Force in November, 1916, and was promoted to the rank of Captain in January, 1917. He held the D.C.M. and the M.C., the former for work in Gallipoli and the latter for work at Lone Pine.
He was 29 years of age and a former student of the Ballarat School of Mines, Victoria. Before joining the School of Mines he had spent three years in practical work on various mines in Victoria and Queensland, and on the completion of his course in 1911, he went to Broken Hill and remained there for eighteen months. He also held appointments at Cobar and at Emmaville, in New South Wales, and he resigned the latter to join the Australian Forces, which were then proceeding to Europe.
Mr. Moore was admitted to Studentship of the Institution in 1910.
Vol. 27, Trans IMM 1917-18, p.401
[The Battle of Lone Pine, between 6 and 10 August 1915, was part of the Gallipoli campaign in which seven Victoria Crosses were awarded to soldiers in the Australian 1st Brigade.]
