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Auction: 21001 - Orders, Decorations and Medals (conducted behind closed doors)
Lot: 492

(x) Four: Sergeant W. H. Hall, 3rd Dragoon Guards, late 6th Dragoon Guards, who was killed in action on the Western Front on 17 November 1915

Queens South Africa 1899-1902, 4 clasps, Cape Colony, Orange Free State, Transvaal, South Africa 1902 (4522 Pte W. H. Hall. 6th Dragoon Gds.); 1914 Star, copy clasp (4491 Sjt H. Hall. 3/D. Gds.); British War and Victory Medals (D-4491 Sjt. W. H. Hall. 3-D. Gds.), good very fine (4)

William Henry Hall was born at Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the son of James Hall in 1880. Enlisted at Gloucester with the 6th Dragoon Guards and served in the Boer War with this unit. Transferred to the 3rd Dragoon Guards following the Boer war and posted to Cairo. Hall was present in Cairo during the outbreak of the First World War and was posted to France on 31 October 1914. The 3rd Dragoons went into the line near Zillebeke-Klienzillebeke from 15-17 November 1917 alongside two squadrons of the North Somerset Yeomanry. They resisted several attacks taking losses of 32 killed and 68 wounded. During the fighting on the last day Hall was killed, his place of burial is unknown but he is commemorated on the Menin (Ypres) Gate; sold together with copied research including an extract of the 6th Dragoons Report on Operations from 15-17 November.

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Sold for
£290

Starting price
£160