Richard Stanley Hawks Moody

Anglo-Zulu War

Moody served in the Anglo-Zulu War, in 1879, as an adjutant, in Zululand, with the 2nd Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of Foot,^[9][31] for which he received the medal with clasp.^[32]

Malta

Moody was brigade major at Malta between 1885 and 1890.^[9] His father Major-General Richard Clement Moody, Kt. died on 31 March 1887 and left over £24,000 in money (about £1.6 million in 21st century money)^[33] in addition to estates^[34] which included over 3049 acres in British Columbia.^[35]

India

Between 1895 and 1897, Moody served in the Chitral Expedition, in which he was part of General William Forbes Gatacre's flying column,^[9] and served during 1895 under Sir Robert Low with the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of Foot, including at Mamugai, for which he received the medal with clasp.^[32]

Moody was part of the Malakand Field Force in 1897, during which he was second in command of the 1st Battalion of the 3rd Regiment of Foot under General Sir Bindon Blood (after whom he named his youngest daughter, Barbara Bindon), including at Bajaur and Mohmand.^[32] During this conflict, Moody was wounded,^[32] received the clasp,^[32] and was mentioned in dispatches.^[9] He there fought alongside Winston Churchill, who mentions him in Chapter XII (At Inayat Kila) of his history of the conflict, The Story of the Malakand Field Force.^[36]

Second Boer War

Moody lived at 2 Sydenham Grove, Sydenham Road, Cheltenham, in 1899.^[37]

Between 1899 and 1902, Moody served in the Second Boer War, for which he was mentioned in dispatches at least twice.^[9][38] He was promoted to lieutenant-colonel on 24 February 1900 to command a battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers.^[39] He went to South Africa to command the 2nd battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, from January 1901 to end of campaign, for which he was again mentioned in despatches. Following the end of the war in June 1902, he returned to England on the SS Custodian which landed at Southampton in August 1902.^[40] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath (CB) in the South Africa honours list, which was published on 26 June 1902,^[41] and he received both the Queen's and the King's medals with 5 clasps.^[9] He received the decoration of CB from King Edward VII during an investiture at Buckingham Palace on 24 October 1902.^[42]

Moody was back in South Africa, in command of the 2nd battalion, from which he and about 640 officers and men of the battalion left for Bombay, India, on the SS Soudan in January 1903, to be stationed in Rawalpindi,^[43] where his youngest daughter Barbara Bindon Moody was born.^[44]

World War I

Moody initially retired from the Army in 1906, to serve as Commander of the Devon and Somerset Brigade of the Territorial Army until 1910.^[45][46] Moody subsequent to the outbreak of World War I in 1914 rejoined active service and raised^[45][46] the 7th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers,^[9] He served also as Colonel of 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers^[9] and, during 1915, as Commandant of a School of Instruction for Officers at Dover.^[9] He during 1916 raised, from the Devonshire Regiment, and took to France,^[45][46] a battalion of the Labour Corps, which he commanded from 1917^[47] to 1918, after which he retired again.^[48]

Military Knight of Windsor and Military Historian

Moody lost his brother, Henry de Clervaux Moody, in the Second Boer War in 1900,^[49][50] and his only son, Thomas Lewis Vyvian Moody, in the World War I in 1918.^[51][52] Moody was appointed an honorary Colonel of the Buffs (East Kent Regiment) and a Military Knight of Windsor on 22 April 1921.^[45][46][53] He was a member of the Naval and Military Club,^[9] and lived at Cullompton, Devon.^[54]

Moody, at the request of The Buffs,^[45][46] wrote The Historical Records of The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 3rd Regiment of Foot, 1914–1919, which was published during 1923.^[55][56] He during 1922 gave the first copy of the book to the Royal Library, Windsor.^[57]

Moody died on 11 March 1930 at Windsor Castle.^[45][46] His funeral at Windsor involved a guard-of-honour by the 1st Battalion The Scots Guards. He is buried at All Saints' Churchyard in Monkland, Herefordshire, where at Plot 62 there is a memorial to him, and to his sister, Gertrude, and to his son, Thomas Lewis Vyvian Moody.^[58]

Issue

Moody and Mary Latimer had four children:^[9]

1. Mary Latimer ('Molly') (b. 1883, d. 1960). Married Major-General James Fitzgerald Martin^[68] on 5 June 1906,^[69] at Exeter Cathedral, and had one daughter, Mary Charlotte (b. 20 September 1909, The Court, Cullompton, Devon),^[70] who married, on 20 September 1929, at Holy Trinity Brompton, Gerald Dawson Kitchingman, Royal Engineers, by whom she had one son, Richard Martin Kitchingman (b. 1 March 1933).
2. Marjorie Brogden (b. 1886, d. 1962, Dennington, Suffolk). Married Arthur Graham Brown, in 1914, and had two sons, George Arthur and Thomas Lionel Vyvian. Thomas Lionel Vyvian was educated at Cheltenham College and at Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, before he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers,^[71] with whom he went to Egypt with the 1st Armoured Division. He received the George Medal for service on the Agedabia El Aghelia Road on 17 January 1942.^[72]
3. Thomas Lewis Vyvian^[73] (b. 4 November 1896,^[74][54] Peshawar, Bengal,^[51] d. 21 March 1918, killed in action, Lagnicourt,^[51] France).^[52] He was educated at Cheltenham College,^[74] at Eastbourne College,^[73][74][51] and at Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst.^[73] Subsequent to leaving Eastbourne College,^[54] Moody served on HMS Worcester, with the Royal Indian Marine Service, until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, whereupon, during 1915, he entered the Australian Army at Melbourne.^[73] He served with the 9th Service Battalion^[54] and the 8th battalion of the Royal Warwickshire Regiment during the Gallipoli Campaign.^[73][74] Subsequent to his wounding during the Gallipoli Campaign, Thomas Moody entered the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, from which he was commissioned, as Lieutenant, in the 1st Battalion of the Buffs (Royal East Kent Regiment),^[75][52][51] with which he served on the Western Front from July 1916.^[73][52][74] Thomas was fatally shot, whilst he was in command of two platoons that were surrounded by German troops near Lagnicourt,^[51] by a German officer with a revolver.^[54][73] Thomas is commemorated at the Arras Memorial, France,^[76][52] and at The Royal Memorial Chapel, Chapel Square, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.^[51] He died unmarried and without issue.
4. Barbara Bindon^[77] (b. 14 June 1903,^[44] India, d. 1974).^[78] Barbara married the choral educator James William Webb-Jones^[79] on 20 December 1930 at Parish Church, Windsor,^[80] and had one daughter, Bridget (b. 5 September 1937) who married the choral educator Peter Stanley Lyons at Wells Cathedral in 1957.^[81][82]