Name
Hathorn Hall
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Royal Munster Fusiliers
8th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Biography
Hathorn Hall was one of three brothers from Abbots Langley that served in the Great War. He was born in 1895 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 Hathorn was still at School. In the1901 and 1911 Census he was referred to as John Hathorn Hall.
Hathorn was first listed in the Abbots Langley Parish Magazine Roll of Honour in July 1915, serving with the 8th Battalion of the Royal Munster Fusiliers, with the rank of Lieutenant. In April 1916 the Parish Magazine noted that he had been promoted from Lieutenant to Captain, and in the July 1916 edition Hathorn was reported wounded, whilst still serving with the Royal Munster’s.
The Roll of Honour continued to record Hathorn serving with the Royal Munster Fusiliers through to the end of the War. He was listed in the Autumn 1918, Spring 1919, and Autumn 1919 Absent Voter Records, serving with the 27th Infantry Brigade, and his address was given at Abbots Road, Abbots Langley.
Hathorn survived the War, as did his brothers Charles and Ronald.
Acknowledgments
Roger Yapp - www.backtothefront.org
