Name
Hubert John Hall
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
27/04/1918
34
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
265564
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 153.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Hatfield Town Memorial, Hatfield In Memoriam Book, St Luke's Church Memorial, Bishops Hatfield
Pre War
Son of William Hall; husband of Edith Alice Hall, later of “East Goldings,” Hatfield, Herts.
The 1891 Census records Hubert, aged 7, was living with his parents William and Jane, four siblings and maternal grandmother at Keepers Cottage, Hatfield Park, Hubert was born at Wye Kent 1884. His father William worked as a head game keeper. They were still living there in 1901.
By 1911, Hubert is a boarder with Mrs Whitby in Hatfield Newtown, and now working as a carpenter to the building trade.
In 1915 he married Edith Alice Kentish.
Officially recorded as born in Wye, Kent and was living in Hatfield when he enlisted in Hertford.
Wartime Service
Hubert became Private 265564, Hertfordshire Regiment.
The Bishop’s Hatfield Parish Magazine of October 1914, in the second list of men mobilised from Hatfield, recorded: “Hall, Hubert John, Newtown, 1st Herts. Territorials.” Then in June 1918: Roll of Honour, Four of the best of us are, alas! Reported missing .......; Hubert and Robert Hall, ......; It would have been hard to pick four finer types of our young manhood; our thoughts and prayers are indeed with those that watch and wait."
Awarded the British War Medal, Victory Medal, 1914 Star.
Additional Information
Hatfield Parish Council Souvenir Committee Ledger: Mrs Hall (Widow) of East Goldings, Hatfield, received an “In Memoriam and Roll of Honour Album”.
His brother of Robert William Hall also died.
Acknowledgments
Jonty Wild, Christine & Derek Martindale, Hatfield Local History Society (www.hatfieldhistory.uk)
