Charlie Moore (Australian rules footballer)

[15] In the 1898 VFL Grand Final, Moore played against Fitzroy's Stan Reid, who would also die in the Boer War.

We camped and organised a sports day, the chief and ever popular item being a boxing competition — light hitting and sparring for points.

Moore danced nimbly away watching his chance then hooked the Sergeant, just one to the chin, it proved sufficient.

He couldn't hit the favourite, who cleverly evaded each attack, waited for an opening, then got one home which knocked the other man right out under the ropes, where he lay wondering just what struck him.

Poor Charlie Moore, who also aimed at being the regiments crack swimmer, but here he bumped into Frank Felstead — a lighter built man with just the right build for surging through water with little apparent effort, so Corporal Moore had to rest content with second place and he was a bad loser.

[18]According to a fellow trooper in South Africa, Moore was "university trained, gifted, and well fitted to lead men and gain respect from his comrades".

"[19]At the time of his enlistment, Moore listed his occupation as "chainman", which indicated that his work was with surveying teams in the bush,[20] and, in particular, that he was responsible for the application of the Gunter's chain.

[21] Corporal Moore left Australia for South Africa on 1 May 1900, with the Fourth (Imperial) Contingent, under the command of Lieutenant-Colonel Kelly,[22] According to a fellow trooper, soon after Moore arrived in South Africa, he was demoted to Private for getting "too big for his boots", and having "looked upon the wine when it was red"[23] On 12 May 1901, he was part of a reconnaissance squad patrolling in the location of the Toorberg Mountain above the Doornbosch Farm[24] when they came across and engaged a group of Boers.

Moore eventually killed his Boer opponent after eight shots, and had struggled back to a ridge and was crawling along it on his hands and knees when his mates found him.