Name
Wilfred Rodenhurst Hall (MC)
09/11/1897
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
21/03/1918
20
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
Suffolk Regiment
11th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Military Cross
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ARRAS MEMORIAL
Bay 4.
France
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hertford Town Memorial,
St Andrew’s Church Roll of Honour, Hertford,
St Andrew’s Church Memorial, Hertford
Pre War
Born on 9 Nov 1897 in Hertford son of Dr. Henry Stocker Wilson Hall and Mrs. Elizabeth (Rodenhurst) Hall of 20 Castle Street, Hertford and later of, of "Belmont", Mavis Road, Bournemouth.
Educated at St Catherine’s, Broxbourne. He was unmarried.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 25 Sep 1914 into the Hertfordshire Yeomanry, was gazetted 2nd Lieutenant, The Suffolk Regiment on 28 Nov 1915 and promoted to Lieutenant on 5 May 1917.
He entered France in July 1916 and was killed at Ypres while on his way to the dressing station to have a wound dressed.
He was awarded MC (Gazetted on 7 Mar 1918) “for conspicuous gallantry and devotion to duty. When his senior company officers were severely wounded, and a large number of other ranks were made casualties, he took command and succeeded in reorganising his company, rallying and encouraging his men. He showed great courage and coolness throughout.”
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Jonty Wild, Angela Diamond
