(photos courtesy of Rosemary Kingstone)

Grave marker for Pfc Clyde K. Moore in Section J, Lot 57, Evergreen Cemetery, Macon (Bibb county), GA

Pfc Moore was killed in action in Normandy on July 3, 1944  and was awarded the Purple Heart. 

Clyde Moore
Dies in War

   Word has been received here of the death of Pfc Clyde K. Moore, son of Clyde Moore, 47 White street, and the late Mattie F. Moore.
   Pfc Moore was killed in action in France on July 3, the War Department advised his father.
   He enlisted in the army in 1940 and received his first training in the panama Canal zone.  From th4e he w3enrt to Puerto Rica [sic], Costa Rica and Columbia.
   He was also station4ed in Australia and later his unit took place in the New Guinea campaign.
   Returning to this country he spent a 20-day furlough at home then was assigned to Fort Benning for three months training before being sent to England.  He volunteered as a paratrooper.
   At the timer of his visit home, he was wearing four service ribbons of different varieties one with a pre-war service star for combat territory, another for overeats duty and a forth [sic] for fighting in the Pacific area.

[Macon Telegraph and News,  Aug 13, 1944]