Second-Lieutenant John Leeson Moffet of the 3rd (Reserve) Battalion, attached to the 2nd Battalion The Royal Scots Fusiliers, died 10 March 1915, the sixth member of the IEE to die in World War 1. He was an Assistant Engineer with the Chloride Electrical Storage Company in Manchester when the war was declared in August 1914 and he relinquished his position shortly thereafter to join the Army.

Second-Lieutenant Moffet died during the Battle of Neuve Chapelle (March 10-13 1915) when on March 10th, whilst leading his Platoon, he came under machine-gun fire and was killed instantaneously.

A photograph of Second-Lieutenant Moffet, and his obituary were published in the IEE World War I Honour Roll and these details have been reproduced below.

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