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• Name HALL
• Initials WJ
• First name WILLIAM JOHN
• Place of birth Pittsburgh
• Country Pennsylvania, USA
• Last residence Edinburgh
• Family Son of William John Hall (boot and shoe maker) and Euphemia Caroline Mackay. One brother, David Adrian; one sister Caroline Euphemia.
• Profession Employee with the railway police
• Extra info Husband of Edith Williamson, of 18, Waverley Park, Abbeyhill, Edinburgh. Two children, Joseph Williamson and William John.

Military service

• Service number 5053
• Rank Private
• Regiment and unit 2nd Bn. Scots Guards
• Division - Brigade 3rd (Guards) Brigade
• Army - Corps - Division Guards Division
• National force B.E.F.
• Other data related to military career Joined the Scots Guards in 1903; was in the Railway Police when called up to fight in het First World War. First went to Caterham, then to Southampton where the 2nd Battalion of the Regiment sailed for Zeebrugge; Disembarkation on 7 October 1914

Death

• Type of wounds Piece of shrapnel in the abdomen, died in n°10 CCS
• Date of death 8 April 1916
• Died at the age of 31
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery V - D - 36

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