 Whilst at Malta, his eldest son, Richard Stanley Hawks Moody, later a distinguished Colonel in the British Army, was born, on 23 October 1854, at Strada Reale, Valletta.However, Richard Clement Moody was compelled to resign from his post in May 1855 as a consequence of having contracted Yellow Fever.He toured Germany before his appointment as Commander of the Royal Engineers in Scotland in November 1855, as which he served until October 1858.