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Person
Hall, Errol V. (Errol Victor), 1887-1963
1887-1963
Captain Errol Hall, was born in Montmorency Falls, Quebec. Listing his occupation as “bank clerk,” he left for France in 1916 as a lieutenant in the 87th Battalion of the Canadian Grenadier Guards and was severely wounded that November in the fighting at the Somme. He then served as aide-de-camp to General James Harold Elmsley (GOC) and later went to Siberia as a captain with the Canadian Siberian Force. There he was appointed secretary to the High Commissioner of Britain. Shortly after the war, he joined the 65th Irish-Canadian Rangers.