Background
Hall was born in Kilkenny, Ireland on 21 February 1885. His father was a British Army soldier from London.
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Frederick Hall
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Career
Hall emigrated to Canada approximately 1910, and lived in Winnipeg, Manitoba. lieutenant was on the night of April 24, 1915 during the Second Battle of Ypres in Belgium that Hall discovered a number of men were missing. On the ridge above he could hear moans from the wounded mentor
Under cover of darkness, he went to the top of the ridge on two separate occasions and returned each time with a wounded manitoba
By nine o"clock on the morning of the 24th there were still men missing. In full daylight and under sustained and intense enemy fire, Hall, Cpl Payne and Pvt Rogerson crawled out toward the wounded.
Payne and Rogerson were both wounded, but returned to the shelter of the front line. He then made a second most gallant attempt, and was in the act of lifting up the wounded man to bring him in when he fell, mortally wounded in the head
The soldier he had attempted to help was also shot and killed.
Frederick William Hall lived on Pine Street, in Winnipeg, Manitoba. A bronze plaque is mounted on a street lamp at the corner of Portage Avenue and Valour Road to tell the tale of these three mentor
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He was 30 years old, and a Company Sergeant-Major in the 8th (Winnipeg Rifles) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force during the First World War when he performed a deed for which he was awarded the Victoria Cross. In 1925, Pine Street was renamed Valour Road because three of Canada"s Victoria Cross recipients resided on the same 700 block of that street: Frederick Hall, Leo Clarke and Robert Shankland. lieutenant is believed to be the only street in the British Commonwealth to have three Victoria Cross recipients to live on it, let alone the same block.
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April 24, 1915 (aged 30)
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Victoria Cross Victoria Cross
The Victoria Cross () is the highest military decoration awarded for valour 'in the face of the enemy' to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories.The Victoria Cross () is the highest military decoration awarded for valour 'in the face of the enemy' to members of the armed forces of various Commonwealth countries, and previous British Empire territories.