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27/04/2021 Robert was a member of Cooneen L.O.L. No. 1010.
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27/04/2021 Robert Hall was the second son of Samuel and Eliza Ann Hall. Samuel Hall and Eliza Beatty were married on 3rd November 1886 in Fermanagh.
27/04/2021 Robert Hall was born on 8th June 1892. He was the second of five children, all born in the Brookeborough area of Fermanagh.
27/04/2021 The 1901 census lists Robert as 8 years old living with the family in Aughavoory, Corrylongford, County Fermanagh. His father Samuel was a farmer.
27/04/2021 The 1911 census records Robert Hall as 19 years old. He was working as a grocer’s assistant. He was still living with the family in Aghavoory, Corrylongford.
27/04/2021 This image comes from Mark Byers Fivemiletown book.
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27/04/2021 Private Robert Hall has no known grave and is commemorated on the Tyne Cot Memorial, near Ypres in Belgium.
27/04/2021 Private Robert Hall is commemorated locally on Fivemiletown War Memorial.
27/04/2021 Private Robert Hall is listed on pages 48-49 of the Fivemiletown book, from which some of these details come from. Many thanks to Mark Byers for the information.
27/04/2021 The CWGC record Private Robert Hall as the son of Samuel and Eliza Ann Hall of Aghavoory, Fivemiletown, County Tyrone.
27/04/2021 There was some speculation that he was a prisoner of war, but a letter from the War Department dispelled this.
27/04/2021 Family: Samuel Hall, Eliza Hall, James William Hall (born 3rd April 1890), Robert Hall (born 8th June 1892), Joseph Hall (born 8th January 1895), Margaret Hall (born 1st July 1900), Emily Hall (born 20th March 1906).
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30/12/2015 Robert Hall enlisted in Armagh.
30/12/2015 Private Robert Hall was serving with the 9th Battalion of the Royal Irish Fusiliers when he was killed in action in France on 16th August 1917, age 25.
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