Private George Richard Baker Hall

Army Number: 16347 Army records show 16346

Battalion: 11th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born at Hucknall, Nottinghamshire. Son of William and Mary Hall, of 6, New Yard, Crow Hill, Pleasley Hill, Mansfield, Nottinghamshire. He was a coal miner prior to enlisting in September 1914 at Mansfield. He went to France on 27th August 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, aged 23, during the attack on the German positions near Ovillers, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Buried: Blighty Valley Cemetery, Authuille Wood, France. Plot V, Row E, Grave 28.

Private George Richard Baker Hall is also commemorated on the following local memorials:-
St. Barnabus Church War Memorial, Pleaseley Hill, Nottinghamshire.
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.

His brother Private James Northage Hall, Lancashire Fusiliers also fell in the Great War.