Private 19703 Horace HALL

1st Battalion, Wiltshire (Duke of Edinburgh’s) Regiment. Formerly Oxford & Bucks Light Infantry

Killed in action at Hooge, France and Flanders, 3rd September 1915, age 21

Commemorated Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, West-Vlaaderen, Belgium. Ref: Panel 53

Awarded 1915 Star, British War and Victory Medals

Links to Relevant Information

CWGC Page for Private Hall

Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial

Wiltshire Regiment

National Railway Museum list of the fallen

Other Information

Born 1892, Honeybourne, Worcestershire

1911 census living in Honeybourne, with his mother, Mary Ann Hall, and employed as a gardener

1915 – Name appears London & North Western Railway Gazette, Volume 4, November 1915 p.334

Worked for London & North Western Railway based at Chilvers Coton, Nuneaton as a sub-ganger in the Engineering Department