11th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers.

Awarded the Military Medal in the London Gazette of 10 August 1916.

Hall was a native of Burnley, Lancashire.

The Burnley Express of 18 November 1916 reported, SERGEANTS FINE RECORD. Wins Medal and Recommended for Commission. A particularly fine record of war service has been achieved by L/Sergeant William Hall, of the Lancashire Fusiliers, son of Mr. and Mrs. Hall, of 310, Cog Lane, Burnley. Though only 21 years of age, in less than two years in the army he has worked his way up from a private to his present rank, won the Military Medal, and has been recommended for a commission. He was formerly an apprentice to Mr. A. J. Laid, plumber, and enlisted on December 15th, 1914. He was drafted to the front the following July, and during his period of active service has been wounded three times. He was hit the first time on November 6th, last year in the fighting at Sanctuary Wood, where he received a shrapnel wound to the leg. At Vimy Ridge on May 15th he was slightly wounded in the neck by shrapnel, and it was here he won the Military Medal. During the recent push he was wounded again, being hit in the head. He has brought home to his parents his steel helmet which now has a big hole in it, drilled by the shot. He is now in Withernsea, undergoing a special musketry course.

He is connected with Myrtle Bank United Methodist School, for which he played cricket and occasionally football, whilst he was much in demand as a reciter. His officers have strongly pressed him to consider a commission, and have recommended him for one.

Registered paper 0137/2666.