Naples ’44

Person · Allied colleague

Moore

One of the section’s sergeants.

In the book

Makes a hair-raising twelve-mile jeep dash out of the Salerno battle to rejoin the section; a year later he is ‘working on with unabated vigour’ despite hepatitis — part of the section’s slow grinding-down by illness.

Appears in 2 diary entries.

  1. September 15 1943
    A comrade's harrowing return from Salerno; confusion persists as officers and men lose track of each other amid ongoing shelling.

    sergeant who makes it back from Salerno through the battle

  2. October 6 1944
    Back in Naples, Lewis finds the section overworked, understaffed, and increasingly worn down by illness after months of dispersal. He reflects that the strange fascination of the intelligence work itself — a kind of legalised eavesdropping on humanity — is what keeps him working dangerously long hours despite the toll.

    sick with hepatitis

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