HALL, Charles
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Known as:
Charlie
Rank:
Marine
Unit / Base:
41RM Commando
Regiment/Corps:
Royal Marines
Service:
Royal Navy
Operations:
Marine Charles Hall, aged 23, from Heaton, Newcastle upon Tyne, was seriously wounded in the throat by shell fire during the landings at Normandy on 6 June 1944. His life was saved by an Army Surgeon performing a tracheostomy using a piece of rubber tubing. Before joining the Royal Marines he was employed by L.N.E.R.
Sources
Account by James Anthony Kelly, 41RM Commando held by the IWM (reel 6) [listen....].
Image with article on his wounding in the Newcastle Journal 20 June 1944, p4 (below).
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