Name
William Herbert Hall
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
C/3920
The Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regiment)
6th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 7.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Christchurch Memorial, Little Heath, Potters Bar, Little Heath & Bentley Heath Memorial, Potters Bar, All Souls Chapel Book of Remembrance, Potters Bar
Pre War
Born in Potters Bar in 1895. Son of the late William E. and Annie Hall, of 5, Pine Ridge Terrace, Church Rd., Potters Bar, Middx.
In the 1911 census he was a butcher’s assistant living with his mother Annie Hall and three younger siblings at Pine Ridge Terrace, Church Road, Potters Bar.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Bromley, Kent 20 September 1914 and posted to 3rd Battalion. Appointed unpaid Lance Corporal 15 October 1914. Landed in France 23 April 1915 to join ‘C’ Company 1st Battalion.
Appointed paid Lance Corporal 15 August 1915. Reduced to Private 18 September 1915.
Appointed Lance Corporal 10 July 1916. Gunshot wound to hand 21 July 1916. Posted to 6th Battalion 7 August 1916. Appointed acting Corporal 9 April 1917. Missing, presumed killed in action 3 May 1917. Killed in the Third Battle of the Scarpe(1917), a part of the Arras Offensive.
Acknowledgments
Martin Cope
