World War I Medal of Honor Recipient. He received the award posthumously (presented to his father) at Confederate Park, Fort Mill, South Carolina, on July 20, 1919 for his actions as a sergeant with Company G, 118th Infantry, 30th Infantry Division, US Army, on October 8, 1918, near Montbrehain, France. The son of a grocery store owner and farmer, he joined the South Carolina National Guard and was mobilized to the Mexican border in July 1916,in response to Poncho Villa's guerilla raids in the US. In May 1918 he was deployed to the Western Front in France and were positioned on the German Hindenburg Line. On that day, he was killed in action while attacking the second of two enemy machine-gun nests. His Medal of Honor citation reads: "Having overcome two machine-gun nests under his skillful leadership, Sgt. Hall's platoon was stopped 800 yards from its final objective by machine-gun fire of particular intensity. Ordering his men to take cover in a sunken road, he advanced alone on the enemy machine-gun post and killed five members of the crew with his bayonet and thereby made possible the further advance of the line. While attacking another machine-gun nest later in the day this gallant soldier was mortally wounded."
World War I Medal of Honor Recipient. He received the award posthumously (presented to his father) at Confederate Park, Fort Mill, South Carolina, on July 20, 1919 for his actions as a sergeant with Company G, 118th Infantry, 30th Infantry Division, US Army, on October 8, 1918, near Montbrehain, France. The son of a grocery store owner and farmer, he joined the South Carolina National Guard and was mobilized to the Mexican border in July 1916,in response to Poncho Villa's guerilla raids in the US. In May 1918 he was deployed to the Western Front in France and were positioned on the German Hindenburg Line. On that day, he was killed in action while attacking the second of two enemy machine-gun nests. His Medal of Honor citation reads: "Having overcome two machine-gun nests under his skillful leadership, Sgt. Hall's platoon was stopped 800 yards from its final objective by machine-gun fire of particular intensity. Ordering his men to take cover in a sunken road, he advanced alone on the enemy machine-gun post and killed five members of the crew with his bayonet and thereby made possible the further advance of the line. While attacking another machine-gun nest later in the day this gallant soldier was mortally wounded."
Bio by: William Bjornstad
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