Last updated 05:38, Friday, 01 August 2008

Distinguished service in co-ordinating work with British and Polish administration staff, read the citation that earned Alan Moore the British Empire Medal, back in 1946, while he was still serving in the RAF.

Alan Moore: Won RAF citation

He had volunteered for military service at the outbreak of World War Two and he served in various parts of Britain for the next six years before returning home to Cumberland.

Aged 87 when he died, he had been one of a Blenerhasset family of three boys and a girl. He was educated locally before going on to the Gregg School in Carlisle.

In 1937 he went to work as a clerk at Pattinson’s Flour Mills in Whitehaven and he stayed there for two years until moving to a similar job in Carlisle.

A short while later he joined the RAF and in 1943 he married his childhood sweetheart, Joy Littleton.

War service completed, he moved back to Blenerhasset and worked in Hetherington solicitors’ office in Wigton, before moving to Carlisle and his new job, in the city premises of electrical goods manufacturers Hoover Ltd.

His next move was to Manchester, working for Provincial Ariels and he remained in that city when he went to work for Cold Shield Windows. Still with this company, he was transferred to Kirkintilloch and then back to Manchester, and there he worked until he retired when he and his wife returned north to Allonby, then Cockermouth and finally Wigton.

The couple were both keen and expert ballroom dancers and their love of music took them to concerts and organ recitals.

Mr Moore’s wife died in 1999 and he leaves his sister and two brothers.

His funeral took place at Carlisle Crematorium, with Mark Szandurski, Aspatria, making the arrangements.