Private William Hall

Private William Hall, 1st/5th (Territorial) Battalion, Cameronians (Scottish Rifles). He was killed in action in France on 29th October 1916 during the Battle of the Somme, aged 27 and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Thiepval, France. He had been born in Garvald and was the son of Jane and the late Andrew Hall of High Street, Greenlaw and before the war was employed by the Earl of Haddington as an underkeeper on his estate at Tyninghame, East Lothian. He had enlisted in February 1916 in the Royal Scots before being transferred into the Cameronians.   The autumn rains turned the soil in a glutinous quagmire making movement of men and guns very difficult as can be seen from the photographs. The colour image shows a peaceful Somme landscape today with ” no gas, no barbed wire, no guns firing now”.

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