HONOURED AFTER ELEVEN YEARS

Evening Star, Issue 20310, 19 October 1929, Page 9

HONOURED AFTER ELEVEN YEARS

UNEMPLOYED ENGLISHMAN GETS FRENCH DECORATION. ; Almost eleven years after the armistice, John Joseph Hall, a Horwich exsoldier, has just received the Croix de Guerre, awarded for gallantry in the Great War Isays the Liverpool ‘ Weekly Post’). Hall, whilst in action as a private in the Tank Corps at a village near Valenciennes, in August, 1918’, ran forward during an enemy attack, and. despite heavy fire, rescued a French officer who lay wounded in no man’s land. He then carried the officer to the nearest dressing station, a quarter of a mile away. Hall was wounded three times during the war, and ten days before the armistice lost his left arm and was severely wounded in the leg. He was in hospital at the time he should have received the decoration, and did not make inquiries until recently. Hall, a married man with several j-oung children, is unemployed.