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28 NAVY NEWS, OCTOBER 2007
Last salute for
Sir Jeremy Moore
THE TIME OF
MAJOR General Sir Jeremy Moore, who died
on September 15 aged 79, took the salute
at the annual reunion of the Royal Marines
Association at the Commando Training
YOUR LIVES
Centre in Lympstone on the weekend before
his death.
The officer came to wider public attention as the
NAVY NEWS looks back through its pages to recall some of the
Commander of Land Forces during the Falklands October headlines of past decades...
War, but to his fellow Royal Marines he had long
been a source of admiration during his varied and
active career.
He initially joined the Royal Marines seeking to
become a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, but was soon
distracted when he realised that “marines are vastly
more exciting, more interesting, and more rewarding
to serve with than any piece of machinery.”
After an initial appointment to the cruiser Sirius,
he served for three years with 40 Commando in the
Malayan jungle, where he won his first Military Cross
– he was, indeed, the third generation of his family to
be awarded that particular honour.
After a series of training appointments, he saw
action in the East again as a company commander
with 42 Cdo during the Brunei revolt in 1962.
He led a company to rescue hostages from the
rebels in Limbang – an action which won him a bar to
his MC, and also the first time he saw action with the
then Lt Jeremy Black, who would be captain of HMS
Invincible during the Falklands conflict.
In the early 1970s, he commanded 42 Cdo with
two tours in Northern Ireland, during Opereration
Motorman where the IRA’s ‘no-go areas’ were cleared
and demolished.
From 42 Cdo, he headed up the Royal Marines
School of Music, where he admitted that although he
● Maj Gen Sir Jeremy Moore at the RMA reunion
had no performing abilities himself, music was one of
at CTCRM Lympstone in early September, the
his principal pleasures.
Commandant CTCRM Brigadier Andrew Salmon
● HMS Gavinton’s Junior Rabbit Grobblington ended his seagoing career in 1977
He subsequently commanded 3 Cdo Bde before
stands behind him
Picture: PO(Phot) Nicola Harper 40 years ago 30 years ago 20 years ago
taking charge of all commando forces in 1979.
plunged into the land attack with characteristic Royal A NAVY man went to the res- THERE are certain stories that THE HIGHLY unusual sculpture
He was due to retire in 1982 and was just at the Marine grit, determination and good humour. cue of a baby seal stranded we know will strike a chord pictured below was commmis-
point of handing back command to the Commandant It was Moore, as Commander Land Forces, who on the mudflats outside HMS in the hearts of many read- sioned by the Imperial War
General Lieutenant General Sir Steuart Pringle, who took the surrender from the Argentine General Mario Lochinvar. ers – and in October 1977, Museum from artist Graham
had been recovering from the loss of a leg in an IRA Menéndez, signalling home: “The Falkland Islands POE1 Eric Payne, of we reported DCI(RN) J575 that Ashton.
attack, when the Argentinians began their invasion. are once more under the government desired by their the establishment’s Base ordered “Land your warm- The fee of £3,000 and a
Basing himself initially at Northwood, Moore inhabitants; God save the Queen.” Maintenance Party, found the blooded mammals forthwith.” three-day visit on board HMS
drummed a sense of amphibious warfare into the baby seal stranded and under And so ended the era of the Valiant produced a work of art ■ SUBMARINERS can pay their respects to the late
military staff there before flying south to Ascension Vice Admiral Sir Ian McGeoch at a memorial service attack by seagulls. shipborne cats, dogs, rabbits that apparently “express the
Island to join the QE2 on route to the Falklands. on Friday October 26 at a venue to be confirmed. A diet of milk and sardines and other mammalia. functional beauty of the appa-
A failure in shipborne communication meant that Details from the secretary of the RN Submarine soon brought the orphaned HMS Gavinton’s pet Junior ratus on board”, with “a sensu-
he was incommunicado for ten days, but on arrival he Museum on 02392 765250 ext 225. mammal back to a picture of Rabbit Grobblington ended his ous evocation of liquid”.
health. seagoing career on this date, Despite Navy News’ best
After flourishing in its tem- sadly missed by the ship’s efforts, the opinions of the
porary home of the loop shed company – although no other submariners it canvassed were
at Lochinvar, the seal was due warm-blooded mammalian unfortunately unprintable...
to be released back into the seafarer is listed (sailors were And even the Imperial War
waters of the Forth to return excluded from this stricture as Museum admitted that it was
to its natural – non-military they were not subject to the “a little more abstract than we
– habitat. rabies order). anticipated.”
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