World War 1

Search the known records to date of those lost from the wider Alnwick area in World War 1

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William John Thomas Hall

Forename(s):
William John Thomas

Surname:
Hall

Initial(s):
W J T

Service Number:
35159

Rank:
Private

Regiment:
King's Own (Yorkshire Light Infantry) 7th Battalion

Died:
31/10/1916

Aged:
28

Buried:
Thiepval Memorial

Service History:
Appears to have enlisted at Wokingham, Berkshire.

Formerly 2003, Durham Light Infantry.

Background:
Born in 1887, at Whittingham, Northumberland, the son of William & Margaret Jane Hall (née Cleghorn) who were married in 1874. William Snr. died in 1886, a few months before his son was born.

In 1891 Hall was living with his widowed mother, & siblings Roger (16), Mary E. (12), & George (6) at Prendwick Cottage, Whittingham.

By 1901 he was living at Abberwick, Edlingham, with his mother. Both were Farm Workers.

His mother died in 1907.

In 1911 Hall was working as an Under Gamekeeper, boarding in the home of William R. Weatherburn, Head Gamekeeper, & his wife Mary Ann at Wolsington, Darlington, County Durham.

Hall married Ethel M. Stobbs in 1915, in Weardale. They had a daughter, Ethel M. Hall, born the same year at Lanchester, County Durham.

Local Memorial:
Unknown