On December 28 Moore’s observation post near Gangelt, just inside Germany, was attacked and overrun. Moore and eight others were taken prisoner. After being treated for a leg wound that troubled him for the rest of his life, and for pneumonia and pleurisy, he was imprisoned in Stalag 6A at Hemer in the Ruhr. Moore was one of only four British prisoners among a population of 23,000, nearly all Russian. Conditions were atrocious. Rations were a pint of mangel-wurzel soup a day and one loaf of black bread a week; for Moore’s twenty-second birthday, the Polish prisoners clubbed together to provide him with a loaf. On being liberated by the US 7th Armored Division on April 14 1945, more than 9,000 men were considered hospital cases and deaths numbered more than 100 every day. Moore and others had a hard time restraining the Russians, who were unprotected by the Geneva Convention and so had fared worst of all, from turning on their captors. He was then “fattened up” in a French hospital where, crawling with lice, he was liberally sprayed with DDT – for which he professed to be most grateful. Moore’s flight home, to his great delight, passed directly over his family home in Sussex. After a spell as an instructor at Larkhill, he was demobbed in 1947.