Sex
Male
Status
Deceased
Barbara Anslow:
Father Moore was an American Maryknoll Mission priest, very young and sincere. He was one of 8 newly-ordained RC priests who had flown into Hong Kong just before the Jap. attack for transfer to Missions in China. They joined enthusiastically in camp sports, but much of their time was taken up in language lessons (Chinese) given by an older priest, Father Bernard Meyer.
Comments
Father John D. Moore
Father John D. Moore was a Maryknoll missionary. He was ordained on 22 June 1941 and assigned to Wuchow (Wuzhou), China. He and his group of newly ordained priests had arrived in Hong Kong just before the Japanese invasion and became trapped in the city and not able to proceed to their inland missions.
After the fall of Hong Kong, he was interned with other Maryknoll priests at Stanley Camp until September 1942 (see here). Upon release and having gained permission from the Japanese authorities to enter China, he and a group of fellow priests left Hong Kong and arrived safely in Kweilin (Guilin) at the end of January 1943.
Father Moore later made his way to Wuchow. The mission at Wuchow was completely destroyed by Japanese bombing in September 1943, but luckily Father Moore was not injured.
After the end of the Pacific war, Father Moore continued his missionary work in South China and Hong Kong
Source
1. Catholic News Service - Newsfeeds dated 23 June 1941. See here
2. Brooklyn Daily Eagle dated 5 February 1943. See here
3. The St. Louis Review dated 17 September 1943. See here