Company Sergeant Major 1539 Frederick William Hall VC

Family details:
Son of Mary Hall, of 43, Union Rd., Leytonstone, London, and the late Bmdr. F. Hall.

Census details:
1891 - 81 Ormskirk Street, St Helens, 6 years old with parents Frederick and Mary A Hall and older sisters Ada (9) Louisa (7) and younger brothers Edmund (4) and Augustine (2). 1901 - 16 years old 'Boy' Frederick William is at Chatham Barracks, Medway, Kent. 1911 - Sees 26 years old Corporal Frederick William Hall serving with the 1st Bn The Cameronians based in Mauritius and South Africa (Ancestry). Genes Reunited shows frederick W as being stationed in Bloemfontain in South Africa.

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An extract from "The London Gazette," No. 29202, dated 23rd June, 1915, records the following:- "On 24th April, 1915, in the neighbourhood of Ypres, when a wounded man who was lying some 15 yards from the trench called for help, Company Serjeant-Major Hall endeavoured to reach him in the face of a very heavy enfilade fire which was being poured in by the enemy. The first attempt failed, and a non-commissioned officer and private soldier who were attempting to give assistance were both wounded. Company Serjeant-Major Hall then made a second most gallant attempt, and was in the act of lifting up the wounded man to bring him in when he fell mortally wounded in the head." Born in Kilkenny, Ireland on 21st February 1885, to English parents, Frederick Hall's family moved to 81 Ormskirk Street, St.Helens in 1891; when he was 6 years old. Spending his formative years in the town, Frederick emmigrated to Canada around 1910, at the age of 25. Frederick won his Victoria Cross on 24th April 1915. During a German attack on the Canadian Division, a wounded man lay crying for help 15 yards from the trench. Under heavy gunfire, Frederick ventured out of the trench and crawled towards the wounded soldier. He slid himself underneath the man to lift him up but was shot and killed when he raised his head to assess his position. Fredrick was 30 years old when he won his Victoria Cross. In Canada, Frederick Hall VC had lived on Pine Street, Winnipeg, Mannitoba. This was renamed Valour Road in 1925 because three Canadian Victoria Cross recipients had lived there. Frederick Hall's father, (Frederick Snr.), a Bandmaster in the South Lancashire Regiment, died in 1905. He is buried in St.Helens Cemetery, Section 12, Grave 118. Frederick William Hall's Victoria Cross is mentioned on his Father's gravestone. [url=http://www.veterans.gc.ca/eng/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/1592737#cvwm-nameplate]Page on Canadian Virtual War Memorial[/url] [popup=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederick_William_Hall]Wikipedia entry[/popup] [center][pic2 width=150]gfx/vc.png[/pic2][/center][caption]Frederick William Hall was [url=awards.php?a=vc]one of four[/url] St Helens related men to be awarded the [note=211]Victoria Cross[/note] in WW1 (the others surviving the war)[/caption] [pic]http://www.veterans.gc.ca/cvwmuploads/published/1592737_9.jpg[/pic][caption]Image from Canadian Virtual War Memorial[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_misc/HallFW_VC.jpg[/pic] [pic]imgs/WW1_people/Hall_FW_1539_CanadianVC.jpg[/pic] [pic]imgs/WW1_people/Hall_FW_VC.jpg[/pic][pic]imgs/WW1_misc/Hall_F_VC_CEF.jpg[/pic][caption]Images from the St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser Courtesy of Ste M.[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_misc/HallFred_VC.jpg[/pic][caption]The St Helens Newspaper & Advertiser Courtesy Ste M[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_misc/HallBrothers_Canadians.jpg[/pic][caption]Images from the St Helens Reporter Courtesy of Ste M.[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/Hall_FW_1539_VC.jpg[/pic] [pic]imgs/WW1_headstones/Hall_FW_1539_VC_.jpg[/pic][caption]A dedication for CSM Frederick William Hall VC at St Helens Cemetery[/caption] [pic]imgs/WW1_memorials/HallFW_8thCanInf.jpg[/pic][caption]The panel on the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial bearing the inscription for Company Sergeant Major Frederick William Hall VC (Photograph courtesy of Ste M.)[/caption] [pic]imgs/S1PWHYAOTV/17291243972_8a1bfb7de0_b.jpg[/pic][caption]Stone laid by the St Helens Cenotaph on the Centenary of the day that his honour was earned (Picture by Robbob)[/caption]