Biography:
Geoffrey Evans Hall was born 25 June 1880, the son of Frederick and Helen Evans Hall of Redbourn, Hertfordshire. He was one of three Wykehamist brothers, another of whom, Captain Humphrey Evans Hall (I 1903-1908), also of Norfolk Regiment, was killed in Mesopotamia on 24 November 1915.
He came to Winchester College from Temple Grove, East Sheen, in September 1894 and was in I House, Turner's. Hall played in OTH VI in 1898 and was a Commoner Prefect in 1899. He left Winchester in the summer of that year and went up to New College, Oxford in September, taking his degree in 1902 with Honours in History. He then moved to London and joined the Stock Exchange.
At the outbreak of war Geoffrey enlisted in the Public Schools Battalion of the Royal Fusiliers and went to France with them in November 1915. In March 1916, he obtained a commission in the Norfolk Regiment and on 25 July of that year was severely wounded. He returned to the front in April 1917, and was killed in action near Grenay on the 26 April. He is buried in grave II.P.11 of the Maroc British Cemetery in Grenay. His name had appeared once in Despatches.