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Richard Stanley Hawks Moody, (23 October 1854 – 10 March 1930) was a distinguished

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officer, and historian, and

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. He was the eldest son of Major-General Richard Clement Moody, Kt. (who was the founder of

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) and of Mary Susannah Hawks of the Hawks dynasty. Valletta-Harbour

Birth and family

Hawks Moody was born in Strada Reale,

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on 23 October 1854. He was the eldest son of Major-General Richard Clement Moody, Kt. (who was the founder and the first

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) and of Mary Susannah Hawks. Mary Susannah Hawks was the daughter of the merchant banker Joseph Hawks JP DL, and of Mary Boyd of the Boyd

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family. Hawks Moody's paternal grandfather was the geopolitician Colonel Thomas Moody, Kt.. Hawks Moody's uncle was Colonel Hampden Clement Blamire Moody CB, who was the Commander of the Royal Engineers in China during the Second Opium War and during the

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Early life

Hawks Moody was born in Malta, when his father was Malta's Commanding Executive Officer of the Royal Engineers. Hawks Moody spent his infancy in the

, of which his father was founder and Lieutenant-Governor.Minutes of the Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers, Volume 90, Issue 1887, 1887, pp. 453–455, OBITUARY. MAJOR-GENERAL RICHARD CLEMENT MOODY, R.E., 1813–1887. Hawks Moody is regularly mentioned in the letters written by his mother, Mary Hawks, to England from colonies of the

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. Hawks Moody and his brothers were educated in England at

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and at

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. Hawks Moody subsequently was commissioned, as a sub-lieutenant, in the

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, on 9 August 1873. He subsequently passed the Staff College, Camberley.

Military service

Anglo-Zulu War

Hawks Moody served in the

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, in 1879, as an adjutant, in Zululand, with the 2nd Battalion of the

Malta

Hawks Moody was

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, 1885–90.

India and Pakistan

Shabkadr Fort outside Peshawar attacked by tribesmen

Between 1895 and 1897, Hawks Moody served in the Chitral Expedition, in which he was part of General William Forbes Gatacre's flying column. Hawks Moody was part of the

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in 1897, during which he was second in command of

under General Sir Bindon Blood, after whom he named his youngest daughter, Barbara Bindon. During this conflict, Hawks Moody was mentioned in dispatches, and fought alongside

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, who mentions him in Chapter XII (''At Inayat Kila'') of his history of the conflict, '' The Story of the Malakand Field Force''.

Second Boer War

Between 1899 and 1902, Hawks Moody served in the

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, for which he was mentioned in dispatches at least twice. He was promoted to

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on 24 February 1900 to command a battalion of the

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, which was not raised, so he was sent to South Africa on special service, and commanded the 2nd battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers, from January 1901 to end of campaign. In this position 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

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in August 1902. He was appointed a Companion of the

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(CB) in the South Africa honours list, which was published on 26 June 1902, and he received both the Queen's and King's medals with 5 clasps. He received the decoration of CB from King

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during an investiture at Buckingham Palace on 24 October 1902.

World War I

Hawks Moody initially retired from the Army in 1906, subsequent to which he was appointed Commander of the Devon and Somerset Brigade of the Territorial Army until 1910. Hawks Moody subsequent to the outbreak of

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in 1914 rejoined active service and raised the 7th Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers, of which he served as Colonel, in addition to as Colonel of 2nd Battalion Royal Irish Fusiliers and, in 1915, as Commandant of a School of Instruction for Officers at Dover. In 1916, he raised, from the

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, and took to

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, a battalion of the Labour Corps, which he commanded from 1917 to 1918, after which he retired again from service.

Military Knight of Windsor and Historian

Hawks Moody was appointed an honorary Colonel of the Buffs (East Kent Regiment) and a

in 1919. He was a member of the Naval and Military Club. Hawks Moody, at the request of The Buffs, wrote ''The Historical Records of The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), 3rd Regiment of Foot, 1914–1919'', which was published in 1923. He in 1922 gave the first copy of the book to the

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. Hawks Moody lost his brother, Henry de Clervaulx Moody, in the Second Boer War, and his only son, Thomas Lewis Vyvian Moody, in the First World War. Hawks Moody died on 11 March 1930 at

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. He is buried at All Saints' Churchyard in Monkland, Herefordshire, where there is at Plot 62 a memorial to him, and to his sister, Gertrude, and to his son, Thomas Lewis Vyvian Moody.

Marriage

Hawks Moody in 1887 married Mary Latimer (d. 1936), who was the daughter of John Latimer Esq. of Leeds. Hawks Moody and Mary Latimer had four children: # Mary Latimer (b. 1883, d. 1960). Married Major-General James Fitzgerald Martin at Exeter Cathedral, in 1906, and had one daughter, Mary Charlotte (b.1909). # Margaret (b. 1886, d. unknown). Married Arthur Graham Brown, in 1914, and had two sons, George Arthur and Thomas Lionel Vyvian. Thomas Lionel Vyvian was educated at

and at Royal Military Academy, Woolwich, before he was commissioned in the Royal Engineers, with whom he went to Egypt with the 1st Armoured Division. He received the

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for service on the Agedabia El Aghelia Road on 17 January 1942.Bath Chronicle and Weekly Gazette, Somerset, England, 6 March 1943: Military Register # Thomas Lewis Vyvian (b. 4 November 1896, Peshawar, Bengal, d. 21 March 1918, killed in action,

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). He was educated at

, at Eastbourne College, and at

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. Subsequent to leaving Eastbourne College, Moody served on HMS ''Worcester'', with the Royal Indian Marine Service, until the outbreak of the First World War in 1914, whereupon he entered the Australian Army at Melbourne. He served with the 8th battalion of the

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during the Gallipoli Campaign. 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

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, with which he served on the Western Front from July 1916. Thomas was fatally shot, whilst he was in command of platoons that were surrounded by German troops on the Western Front near Lagnicourt, by a

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officer with a revolver. Thomas is commemorated at the

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, France, and at The Royal Memorial Chapel, Chapel Square, Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. He died unmarried and without issue. # Barbara Bindon (b. 1903, India, d. 1973). Barbara married the choral conductor James W. Webb-Jones on 20 December 1930, at Parish Church,

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, and had one daughter, Bridget (b. 5 September 1937) who married the musician Peter S. Lyons at

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in 1957.Entry for Lyons, Peter S., ''Register of Twentieth Century Johnians'', Volume I, 1900–1949. St John's College, Cambridge.'Obituary of Peter S. Lyons'', ''Rutland and Stamford Mercury'', Friday, 20 April 2007.