Allegiance United Kingdom Service/branch British Army Education Harrow School | Name James Rodney Years of service 1925-1966 Rank General | |
Commands held 2nd Battalion Grenadier Guards
8th Brigade
1st Guards Brigade
1st Division
10th Armoured Division
London District Battles/wars Second World War
Malayan Emergency Died 1985, England, United Kingdom Awards Order of St Michael and St George, Order of the Bath, Order of the British Empire, Distinguished Service Order Battles and wars World War II, Malayan Emergency | ||
General Sir James Newton Rodney Moore, (1905–1985) was a senior British Army officer who fought in the Second World War and later was General Officer Commanding London District.
Military career
Educated at Harrow School and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Moore was commissioned as a second lieutenant into the Grenadier Guards in 1925. From 1942 to 1944 he was a General Staff Officer (GSO) in the Guards Armoured Division. He was then Commanding Officer (CO) of the 2nd Battalion, Grenadier Guards, in North-West Europe. In 1945 he became CO of the 8th Infantry Brigade in Germany and Palestine. From 1946 to 1947 he was CO of the 1st Guards Brigade, also in Palestine.
Returning to the United Kingdom in 1948, Moore was Chief of Staff of London District until 1950, and then attended the Imperial Defence College.
From 1951 to 1953 he was Deputy Adjutant-General, British Army of the Rhine, Germany. Moore than undertook his first NATO posting, as Chief of Staff Allied Forces Northern Europe. Returning to the Middle East in 1955, Moore was General Officer Commanding (GOC) 1st Division. He was then transferred, in the same year, to command the 10th Armoured Division.
Returning to London in 1957, he assumed the post of Major-General commanding the Household Brigade and London District. Another overseas posting in 1959 saw him serving as Chief of Armed Forces Staff, Malaya and Director of Border Operations, Malaya. For his service in this role, Moore was appointed an honorary Commander of the Order of the Defender of the Realm by the Malayan government in 1961. His last active appointment was as the first Defence Services Secretary at the Ministry of Defence in London. He retired in 1966.
From 1965 to 1966 he was Aide-de-Camp General to H.M. The Queen. Moore spent his last years as Chief Steward of Hampton Court Palace.
He was also a Gentleman Usher to the Royal Household.