In addition to serving in the 106th Winnipeg Light Infantry of the Canadian Militia, he had spent over 12 years in the British Army’s Cameronians (Scottish Rifles).

[2] He was 30 years old, and a company sergeant-major in the 8th Battalion (90th Winnipeg Rifles), Canadian Expeditionary Force, during the First World War when he performed a deed for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

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.

In full daylight and under sustained and intense enemy fire, Hall, Corporal Payne and Private Rogerson crawled out toward the wounded.

When a wounded man who was lying some 15 yards from the trench called for help, Hall endeavoured to reach him in the face of heavy fire by the enemy but was shot in the head.

The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records that he was the son of Mary Hall, of Leytonstone, London, and the late Bombardier F.

He is also remembered in St Helens, Lancashire, where he lived at the time of the 1891 United Kingdom census and used as his home address until he left for Canada in 1910.