Person    | Male  Born 2/10/1906  Died 17/4/1941

Auxiliary Fireman Charles Edmund Moore

Categories: Emergency Services

War dead non-military, WW2 i

Commemorated on a memorial as being a civilian who was killed in WW2. Includes mercantile marines and emergency services personnel.

Auxiliary Fireman Charles Edmund Moore

From the Sub Fire Station 6W, Cheyne Place. Died in a fire which took the lives of seven firemen, known as "The Wednesday". He is shown, incorrectly, as Auxiliary Fireman Charles Edward Moore on the memorial plaque attached to Chelsea Fire Station, 264 King's Road, London, SW3.

Charles Edmund Fehrenbach was born on 2 October 1906, the second of the five children of Alphons Fehrenbach (1875-1952) and Maria Fehrenbach née Mohr (1882-1960). His birth was registered in the 4th quarter of 1906 in the St. George in the East Registration District, London.

On the 1911 census return form completed by his father he was shown as Edmund Fehrenbach, aged 4 years and at school, living in four rooms at 14 Lower Chapman Street, St George in the East, with his parents and his three siblings: Maria Louisa Fehrenbach (1905-1983) - at school; Veronica Rufina Fehrenbach (1908-1991) and Louisa Sophia Fehrenbach (1910-1992). His father described himself as a clock maker.

In the 1921 census he is again shown as Edmund Fehrenbach, aged 14 years, 8 months and now living in 5 rooms at 14 Lower Chapman Street, St George in the East, with his parents and four siblings: Maria Louisa Fehrenbach - a junior clerk at Dixon's White Ltd, paint & varnish suppliers in Bow, London; Veronica Rufina Fehrenbach (1908-1991); Louisa Sophia Fehrenbach and Paul Alfons Fehrenbach (1918-1965). His father described himself as a clockmaker employed by Camerer Cuss & Co., 56 New Oxford Street, London, W1

Electoral registers in 1933 show him and his three sisters listed at 16 Lower Chapman Street, Stepney.

He changed his surname to Moore and married Margaretha Katharina Ziltz (1909-1990) in the 2nd quarter of 1937 in the Stepney Registration District, London.

They were both shown as listed in the 1937 electoral registers at 206 Cambridge Road, London, NW6 and were also shown there on the 1939 England and Wales Register in which he was described as a journeyman baker and a member of the Auxiliary Fire Service, whilst his wife was recorded as a baker's shop assistant. His father, who had been born in Baden, Germany, was exempted from internment during World War Two.

From the Firefighters Remembered website we learn that he joined the Auxiliary Fire Service in 1938.

His death, aged 34 years, was registered in the 2nd quarter of 1941 in the Chelsea Registration District, London. Probate records confirm his address was 206 Cambridge Road, London, NW6 and that he died as a result of war operations and whose body was found on 18 April 1941 at 64 Chelsea Square, Chelsea, London. Probate was granted on 23 May 1941 to his widow and his effects totalled £278.

He is also commemorated on the Commonwealth War Graves Commission's website and his name is entered in the Civilian War Dead Roll of Honour 1939-1945 housed in Westminster Abbey.

Credit for this entry to: Andrew Behan.

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