Name
William Herbert Hall
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
03/05/1917
21
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
G/3920
Queen's Own (Royal West Kent 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
No Report
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
William Herbert was born in Potters Bar in 1895. Eldest son of William Elias Hall. Plumber& Gas Fitter, and Annie (nee Lowin).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, William and Reginal John (born 1897) were living at Church Road, South Mimms.
William’s father died in 1911.
On the 1911 census William was a butcher’s assistant living with his mother Annie Hall, Reginald, Lilian Annie (born 1906) and Sidney Herbert (born 1908) at 5 Pine Ridge Terrace, Church Road, Potters Bar.
Wartime Service
William enlisted at Maidstone, Kent on 20 Sep 1914 in the Queen’s Own (Royal West Kent Regiment) as Private G/3920 and was posted to 3rd (Reserve) Battalion for training on 29 Sep 1914. He was appointed unpaid Lance Corporal 15 Oct 1914. William went to France on 22 Apr 1915 passing through 5th Infantry Base Depot on and joining 1st Battalion, ‘C’ Company on 25 Apr 1915. He was appointed paid Lance Corporal on 15 Aug 1915 but was reduced to Private 18 Sep 1915 due to defective vision. William was appointed as Lance Corporal 10 July 1916 and posted to 6th (Service) Battalion of the regiment on 7 Aug 1916. He received a Gun Shot wound to his hand on 21 Jul 1916. Appointed acting Corporal 9 April 1917.
William was posted as Missing, he was presumed killed in action on 3 May 1917. (During the Third Battle of the Scarpe (3-4 May 1917), a part of the Arras Offensive. His remains were not recovered and he is remembered on the Arras Memorial.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £13 and arrears of £3 4s 11d was paid to his mother.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Martin Cope
