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Surname: HALL
Forename(s): Lyndon Hanson
Place of Birth: Keighley, Yorkshire
Service No: 2575
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Battalion / Unit: 1/6th Battalion
Division: 49th (West Riding) Division
Age: 21
Date of Death: 1915-12-19
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: IV. A. 23.
CWGC Cemetery: LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
CWGC Memorial: ---
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial(s): Not Listed (View Names Not Listed on a Local War Memorial)
Additional Information:
Lyndon Hanson Hall was the son of Luther and Elizabeth Hall, née Hanson. Both parents were born at Keighley, Yorkshire.
1901 Keighley, Yorkshire Census: 36, Adelaide Street - Lyndon Hall, aged 7 years, born Keighley, son of Elizabeth Hall (married).
1911 Keighley, Yorkshire Census: 2, Croft Street - Lyndon Hall, aged 17 years, born Keighley, son of Elizabeth Hall, widow.
The British Army Pension Record for Lyndon Hanson Hall exists but may be incomplete.
The British Army Service Record for Lyndon Hanson Hall exists but may be incomplete.
British Army WW1 Medal Rolls Index Cards: Pte Lyndon H. Hall, 2575, West Riding Regiment. Theatre of War first served in: (1) France. Date of entry therein: 14 April 1915.
See also: ‘Guiseley Terriers: A Small Part in The Great War – A History of the 1/6th Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding) Regiment’ by Stephen Barber (2018).
Data Source: Craven Herald Article
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Duke of Wellington’s (West Riding Regiment)
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 49th (West Riding) Division
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31 December 1915
SILSDEN – MACHINE GUN PALS KILLED AND WOUNDED
News was received at Keighley on Tuesday that Pte. Lyndon Hanson Hall, 22, of Cross Street, Keighley, and a member of the First Sixth Battalion, Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment, had died from the effects of poisonous gas. Pte. Hall enlisted in the Territorials shortly after the outbreak of war, and went out to France in April last. He was well known both in Keighley and Silsden, and particularly in the latter place where he had resided for some time. Second Lieut. F. Longden Smith, writing to his mother in a letter dated December 22nd. states:– “I cannot say how sorry I am to have to write and tell you that your son has died from the effects of gas poisoning received last Sunday. He was with the Machine Gun Section and close up in support, and the gas was on them before they could get their gas helmets on. He was always a cheerful and willing worker. You could always be quite sure that if he was in charge of a gun team the gun would be in good working order and always well manned. On behalf of the N.C.O.’s and men let me offer you my deepest sympathy in your great loss.”
Pte. Hall was a member of the same team as Pte. Joseph Dunn to whom we refer as being wounded. They have been pals at the Front for some time.
Pte. Robert Reed, of the 9th Battalion Duke of Wellington’s West Riding Regiment, and also of Silsden, is reported to have been killed in France – wounded one day and died the next.
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