Richard Neville Hall Plaque
Details:
Located on the right-hand side of the cemetery as you face it.
PlaqueAn upright, rectangular memorial plaque with a rounded top mounted on a metal post, honoring Richard Neville Hall, an American volunteer ambulance driver who served with the French Army and was killed during World War I. The inscription is presented in both English and French, and the plaque was installed on November 3, 2015.
Monument Text:
RICHARD NEVILLE HALL
UN AMÉRICAIN MORT POUR LA FRANCE
18 MAI 189425 DÉCEMBRE 1915
SECTION SANITAIRE AMÉRICAINE 3
AMERICAN AMBULANCE FIELD SERVICE
Richard Hall était membre dun corps dambulanciers volontaires ayant servi au côté de lArmée Française avant lentrée en guerre des États-Unis. Il est mort au volant de son ambulance, frappée par un tir de mortier à laube de Noël 1915. La Croix de Guerre lui fut décernée à titre posthume; il est le seul Américain inhumé au cimetière de Moosch.
Érigée le 3 novembre 2015 en présence de sa famille et avec laide de AFS Intercultural Programs et amis, cette plaque commémorative honore sa mémoire et lorganisation à laquelle il appartenait.
Noublions jamais le sacrifice de ceux qui ont perdu leur vie pour en sauver dautres.
Richard Hall was a volunteer with an American ambulance corps serving alongside the French Army prior to the entry of the United States into the war. His ambulance was struck by German shellfire in the early morning hours of Christmas Day 1915. He was awarded a posthumous Croix de Guerre and is the only American buried in the military cemetery of Moosch.
This plaque was erected on November 3, 2015 in the presence of his family and with the support of AFS Intercultural Programs and friends, in honor of his life and the organization to which he belonged.
Let us never forget the sacrifice of those who gave their lives to save others.
Commemorates:
People:
Units:
Ambulance Corps
American Ambulance Field Service, Section 3
American Field Service
American Volunteer Group
Wars:
WWI
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