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| 30/08/2017 |
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| 30/08/2017 |
Many thanks to Miriam (Milne?) in Canada who recently carried extensive research into the family for Samuel and Mary’s granddaughter. |
| 30/08/2017 |
Samuel Hugh Hall and Mary Jane Hurl’s daughter, Sarah (Sadie) lived to be 100. |
| 30/08/2017 |
Samuel Hugh Hall’s son Sammy died in 1969, drowned in Toronto, body never found. |
| 30/08/2017 |
Two of Samuel’s sisters also emigrated to Winnipeg and married there. |
| 30/08/2017 |
After Samuel was killed in action his widow was given his ‘death penny’. She came to Toronto with her two young children in 1918, and married a war veteran from Scotland, David Weston. |
| 30/08/2017 |
His wife and son visited him in Winnipeg for a few months in 1913, where she became pregnant. She returned to Magherafelt, and her daughter Sarah Marie Hall was born there in 1914. |
| 30/08/2017 |
Their son Samuel was born in Scotland in 1912. |
| 30/08/2017 |
Samuel Hall married Mary Jane Hurl, who was from Magherafelt, but it seems likely that they married in Glasgow in 1911. |
| 30/08/2017 |
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| 30/08/2017 |
Samuel Hall emigrated to Winnipeg, Canada about 1912. |
| 21/04/2017 |
The Canadian Circumstances of Death Register records that Private Hall was killed in action. During an attack near Arleux-en-Gohelle, he was hit by a machine gun bullet and instantly killed. |
| 21/04/2017 |
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| 19/02/2017 |
From the Belfast Newsletter dated 12th July 1917: |
| 19/02/2017 |
Private Samuel H Hall, Canadian Infantry, killed in action, emigrated six years ago, and enlisted in Winnipeg. His wife resides at Leckagh, Magherafelt. |
| 19/02/2017 |
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| 22/09/2016 |
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| 30/12/2015 |
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| 30/12/2015 |
Private Samuel Hugh Hall has no known grave and is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial, near Arras in France. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Private Samuel Hall was serving with the 8th Battalion of the Canadian Infantry when he was killed in action on Saturday 28th April 1917. He was 32 years old. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Samuel enlisted in Winnipeg on 16th February 1916. He listed his next of kin as his wife, Mary Hall. Mary was living in Leckagh, Magherafelt at that time. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Samuel worked as a machinist’s helper. He was living at 2 Bury Street, Winnipeg. |
| 30/12/2015 |
There is a possible listing of Samuel Hugh Hall in the 1901 census. He was living in Vernon Street in Belfast. He was 19 years old. |
| 30/12/2015 |
Samuel Hugh Hall enlistment papers record that he was born in Belfast on 14th June 1884. GRONI has no record of this. |
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