Editing Patrick Moore (section)

==Early life==
Moore was born in [[Pinner]], [[Middlesex]], on 4 March 1923<ref name="page 1">{{harvnb|Moore|2003|p=1}}</ref> to Capt. Charles Trachsel Caldwell-Moore [[Military Cross|MC]] (died 1947)<ref name="page 4">{{harvnb|Moore|2003|p=4}}</ref> and Gertrude (née White) (died 1981).<ref name="page 4"/> His family moved to [[Bognor Regis]], and subsequently to [[East Grinstead]] where he spent his childhood. His youth was marked by heart problems, which left him in poor health, and he was educated at home by private tutors.<ref name="page 1"/><ref name="royalsocobit">{{Cite journal | last1=May | first1=Alex | last2=Longair | first2=Malcolm | date=2019 | title=Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore, 4 March 1923 – 9 December 2012 | journal=[[Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society]] | volume= 67| pages= 143–152| doi=10.1098/rsbm.2019.0029| doi-access=free }} In press.</ref> He developed an interest in astronomy at the age of six<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|1997|p=1}}</ref> and joined the [[British Astronomical Association]] at the age of 11.<ref name="page 3">{{harvnb|Moore|2003|p=3}}</ref> He was invited to run a small observatory in East Grinstead at the age of 14, after his mentor, [[William Sadler Franks]] – who ran the observatory – was killed in a road accident.<ref name="page 12">{{harvnb|Moore|2003|p=12}}</ref> At the age of 16, he began wearing a [[monocle]] after an [[Ophthalmology|oculist]] told him his right eye was weaker than his left.<ref>{{harvnb|Moore|2003|p=35}}</ref>

During [[World War II]], Moore joined the [[Home Guard (United Kingdom)|Home Guard]] in East Grinstead, where his father had been elected [[platoon]] commander.<ref>{{harvnb|Mobberley|2013|p=21}}</ref>  Records show that he enlisted in the [[Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve]] in December 1941 at age 18 and was not called up for service until July 1942 as an [[Aircraftman]], 2nd Class.<ref>{{harvnb|Mobberley|2013|pp=23–24}}</ref> After basic training at various RAF bases in England, he went to Canada under the [[British Commonwealth Air Training Plan]]. He completed training at [[Greater Moncton International Airport|RAF Moncton]] in New Brunswick as a navigator and pilot.<ref>{{harvnb|Mobberley|2013|pp=30–33}}</ref> Returning to England in June 1944, he was commissioned as a [[pilot officer]]<ref>{{London Gazette|issue=36653|date=11 August 1944|pages=3758–3761 |supp=y }}</ref> and was posted to RAF [[Millom]] in [[Cumberland]], where he claimed to have been a navigator in the crew of a [[Vickers Wellington]] bomber, engaged in [[maritime patrol]]ling and bombing missions to mainland Europe,<ref>{{harvnb|Mobberley|2013|p=33}}</ref> though in fact he was still in training at Millom. He was only posted to [[RAF Bomber Command|Bomber Command]] five days before the end of the war in Europe.<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=May|first1=Alex|last2=Longair|first2=Malcolm|date=2019-12-01|title=Sir Patrick Alfred Caldwell-Moore. 4 March 1923—9 December 2012|journal=Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society|volume=67|pages=143–152|doi=10.1098/rsbm.2019.0029|doi-access=free}}</ref> After the end of hostilities, Moore became an [[Adjutant#Britain and the Commonwealth|adjutant]] and then an Area Meteorological Officer, demobilising in October 1945 with the rank of [[flying officer]].<ref>{{harvnb|Mobberley|2013|p=39}}</ref>