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Personal data

• Name HALL
• Initials HW
• First name HERBERT WESLEY
• Place of birth Prescott
• Country Ontario, Canada
• Family Son of William James Hall and Cassie Hall of Prescott, Ontario; his brother Gordon was wounded in the same battle, taken POW; Gordon returned to Canada in 1919; his mother Cassie wrote letters to the mother of Stanton McGreer, buried in the same grave;
• Profession Student
• Extra info 4th Hussars, Morrisburg, Ontario (Corpl); 56th Lisgar Rifles, Prescott; Prescott High School Cadet Corps.

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 22 September 1915, Montreal
• Service number 475305
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry
• Division - Brigade 7th Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division 3rd Canadian Division
• National force C.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Original overseas unit 4th University Company. Joined the P.P.C.L.I. in the field April 28, 1916

Death

• Wounded 2 June, Sanctuary Wood
• Type of wounds Died of shrapnel wounds in the head and back, in n°3 Can CCS
• Date of death 6 June 1916
• Died at the age of 19
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery VII - B - 37

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