HALL Albert George

A.G. Hall, Private, Worcestershire Regiment was employed by the Midland Railway as a Signalman in the Traffic-Coaching Section at Long Marton Station. These details are recorded in the company’s memorial book.

Source: In Remembrance of the Brave Men of the Midland Railway who Gave their Lives in the Great War 1914-1919. Published by the company to coincide with the unveiling of the Midland Railway War Memorial at Derby on Thursday 15th December 1921 at 11.45am.

The following information has been researched and transcribed by Jeff Taylor:
A Blackwell Reservist Dies of Wounds
News has been received that Private Albert Hall, son of Mr Frederick Hall, of Blackwell Station, has died of wounds received in action on the 30 September 1915. He was also wounded in France on the 13 October 1914, and returned home for a few weeks. He was a reservist, and was called up when the war commenced. Private Hall was a Midland Railway Signalman and leaves a widow and one child. He was 29 years of age. Two brothers are serving in France. One of whom, Lance Corporal John Edwin Hall, Worcestershire Regiment, was posted as missing in action during June 1917.

December 1915
Memorial Service at Blackwell
A memorial service was held at the Wesleyan Church, Blackwell, on Sunday, on behalf of those who had fallen in the war. As reported last week, Private S.J. Duggins, the second of two sons of Mr and Mrs W. Duggins was killed in action in France on the 19th November, making the fourth serviceman from Blackwell who had fallen. A special form of service appointed by the Wesleyan Methodist Conference was used, the preacher being the Rev. R. E. Overton. The parents and two brothers of the late Private Duggins were present at the ceremony, and much sympathy was felt for them by all present.

A long list of names was then read out, followed by the words, €œFrom this congregation these have gone forth to the war€œ, and then the words, €œSome of these have fallen€, ALBERT HALL, NORMAN DUGGINS, DONALD EWEN, and JOHN DUGGINS.

A short address was given, a very appropriate text being chosen, viz., €œGreater love hath no man than this, that a may lay down his life for his friends€. The Rev. H. E. Overton spoke briefly of the large number who had given freely for our sakes and laid down their lives for their land. €œLove makes martyrs€, he said, €œand by their death they point to love’s greater sacrifice€. The organist, Mr A. T. Hookway, played €œThe Dead March€ in Saul, at the conclusion of the service.