Marble memorial tablet at St John's Church of England Church commemorating Major Hatherly George ...

Marble memorial tablet at St John's Church of England Church commemorating Major Hatherly George Moor, 1st Mounted Infantry, West Australia, who was killed in action on 19 July 1900 at Palmeitfontein. In 1901 the tablet was placed in St John's - the money raised by public subscription. A former Captain with the Royal Artillery, he led the first West Australian contingent to South Africa, having recently been promoted to the rank of Major. In 1886 he was a member of the Albany Defence Rifles. In the intervening years he had five years' service in Natal with a mountain battery, and in 1897 he served in Rhode's British Charted Company, in Rhodesia and saw action in the war against the Matabele in 1897. Back in Australia, in 1899 he was instrumental in proposing a Volunteer Artillery Corps at Albany. On 7 November 1899, the Western Australian infantry company of 130 officers, non commissioned officers and men, under the command of Major Moor, left Albany on the Medic , arriving in Cape Town on 27 November. The unit was engaged in Transvaal and the Orange Free State.