Name
Ronald Acott Hall
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Royal Garrison Artillery
182nd Siege Battery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Ronald Hall was one of three Abbots Langley brothers that served in the Great War. He was born in the summer of 1892 at Burton Joyce in Nottinghamshire, one of four children born to John and Elizabeth Hall. In the 1891 Census John Hall worked as a Corn Merchant, but by 1901 he was living on his “Own Means”, and the family was living at “Granby”, Clifton Drive, Prittlewell, Southend. Ten years later, at the time of the 1911 Census the family had moved again, and lived at 6 Gledstanes Road, West Kensington in London. At this time Ronald worked as a Bank Clerk.
Ronald was first listed in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in July 1915 serving with the Inns of Court Officer Training Corps. Ronald’s badly burned Service Record confirmed that he was commissioned in the Royal Garrison Artillery on 11th August 1915. In November 1915 the Roll of Honour indicated that he had been assigned to the Oxfordshire Heavy Artillery, with the rank of Lieutenant.
The Roll of Honour listed Ronald serving with the 4th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery (RGA) in July 1916, and sometime in 1918 he was promoted to Captain, and eventually to Major. He was listed in the Autumn 1918 and Spring 1919 Absent Voter Records, serving with the 182nd and 164th Siege Batteries respectively, and his address was given at Abbots Road, Abbots Langley. The Roll of Honour noted that Ronald received the French Croix de Guerre medal.
Ronald Hall survived the War, as did his brothers Charles and Hathorn.
Additional Information
Formerly 4th & 164th Siege Battery, Royal Garrison Artillery
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
