Major-General Sir Jeremy Moore

The Right Rev Humphrey Southern, Bishop of Repton, writes: Your obituary of Major-General Sir Jeremy Moore (September 17) justly paid tribute to his remarkable military achievement and his charitable and community activities. What it did not mention was Sir Jeremy’s deep and inspiring personal faith and the powerful humanity that flowed from it. This was apparent in his disciplined and faithful devotion in worship and also in his dedicated and unstinting service of the Church. He was for many years churchwarden of the village church in Wiltshire where he lived and also a calm and generous treasurer of the Edington Church Music Festival, based in the next village. It may have surprised participants in that event that so many of the chairs were stacked and the collections counted by so highly distinguished and decorated a person and the same surprise might have been experienced by many visitors to Wells Cathedral, if they had known the identity of the volunteer guide who showed them round. Jeremy himself would probably have been entirely happy for the identification not to be made. He will be very deeply missed.

Peter Orchard, City of London Royal Marines Association, writes: I was privileged to attend the annual reunion of Royal Marines Association Parade on September 9 at CTC RM Lympstone, a week before Major-General Moore passed away. How proud we all were as he spoke to all the Standard Bearers from the attending branches, and when he inspected the parade and the Royal Marines Band.

His address to the parade can only have instilled enormous drive in those new Royal Marine recruits on parade, as well as the pride that we old hands had, having served under him during the Falklands, 25 years ago, and all over the world in the intervening years, putting right various problems. He was indeed an inspiration.

Lieutenant-General Sir Hew Pike writes: By the time Jeremy Moore landed on East Falkland on May 30, 1982, my battalion (3 Para) had advanced across the island to secure Teal Inlet and Estancia House, and it was here that he first visited us soon afterwards. This was typical of his forward style as a commander. Characteristic of this admirable, straightforward and good- humoured man was his response to the Battalion’s fiery second in command, who greeted him at the entrance to our main HQ in the farmhouse by telling him to “Clear off because the General is about to arrive”. Dressed fairly incognito in a US Army-type peaked cap, Moore with his wry smile introduced himself and politely explained that he was the General.