Military service
Burial/memorial information
Digital gallery of Captain James Frederick Mills Hall
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Medals
The service medals: France & Germany Star, 39-45 Star, Defence, CVSM (and clasp), Victory Medal (with MID) and Canadian Memorial Cross awarded to the next of kin of Capt. Hall. -
Memorial Cross
Reverse of the Memorial Cross with Hall's details -
Photo of James Hall
Capt. J. F. M. Hall sometime before D-Day. Photograph from the Fort Garry Horse museum -
Soldiers' Tower Memorial
The Soldiers’ Tower was built by the University of Toronto Alumni Association in 1924 as a memorial to the Great War of 1914-1918. The names of those who died in that conflict are carved on the Memorial Screen at photo left. After the Second World War, more names were carved in the Memorial Arch at the Tower’s base. In total, almost 1200 names are inscribed. A Memorial Room inside the Tower contains mementoes and artifacts, and a 51-bell carillon serves as the audio element of the living memorial to the alumni, students, faculty and staff who died in the World Wars. The Soldiers’ Tower is the site of an annual Service of Remembrance. Photo: Kathy Parks, Alumni Relations. -
Memorial Arch
The names of those who died in the Second World War were added to the archway beneath the Soldiers’ Tower in 1949. The name of “Capt J. F. M. HALL C.A.C.” is among the names inscribed. Photo: Cody Gagnon, courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial Room
Soldiers’ Tower, University of Toronto. Photo: David Pike, courtesy of Alumni Relations. -
Memorial Book
University of Toronto Memorial Book, Second World War 1939-1945. Published by the Soldiers’ Tower Committee, 1993. Entry on page 26 reads: “Capt James Frederick Mills HALL The Fort Garry Horse, 10 Armoured Regt RCAC. Former student University College, Arts 1939-41. Also Osgoode Hall. Killed on active service in France, 9 June 1944. Buried in the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, France.” -
Grave Marker
The grave marker (2010) at the Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located outside Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. May he rest in peace. (K. Falconer & J. Stephens) -
Beny-Sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery
The Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery, located at Reviers, about 4 kilometres from Juno Beach in Normandy, France. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper Clipping
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star November 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Star June 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Grave marker
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Cemetery
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram October 1941. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram 1944. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Captain James Frederick Mills Hall
Digital gallery of
Captain James Frederick Mills Hall
Digital gallery of
Captain James Frederick Mills Hall
Digital gallery of
Captain James Frederick Mills Hall
Digital gallery of
Captain James Frederick Mills Hall
Digital gallery of
Captain James Frederick Mills Hall
Digital gallery of
Captain James Frederick Mills Hall
Digital gallery of
Captain James Frederick Mills Hall
Digital gallery of
Captain James Frederick Mills Hall
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 325 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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BENY-SUR-MER CANADIAN WAR CEMETERY Calvados, France
Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery is about 1 kilometre east of the village of Reviers, on the Creully-Tailleville-Ouistreham road (D.35). Reviers is a village and commune in the Department of the Calvados. It is located 15 kilometres north-west of Caen and 18 kilometres east of Bayeux and 3.5 kilometres south of Courseulles, a village on the sea coast. The village of Beny-sur-Mer is some 2 kilometres south-east of the cemetery. The bus service between Caen and Arromanches (via Reviers and Ver-sur-Mer) passes the cemetery.
It was on the coast just to the north that the 3rd Canadian Division landed on 6th June 1944; on that day, 335 officers and men of that division were killed in action or died of wounds. In this cemetery are the graves of Canadians who gave their lives in the landings in Normandy and in the earlier stages of the subsequent campaign. Canadians who died during the final stages of the fighting in Normandy are buried in Bretteville-sur-Laize Canadian War Cemetery.
There are a total of 2,048 burials in Beny-sur-Mer Canadian War Cemetery. There is also one special memorial erected to a soldier of the Canadian Infantry Corps who is known to have been buried in this cemetery, but the exact site of whose grave could not be located.
For more information, visit Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
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