James Hall was born on a farm in Oklahoma on the 15th of April, 1895. He attended school there until 1906, when he came west with his father and brother. In 1915 they took up their residence in Fallon in Churchill County. There James lived until his entry into the Service on the 24th of June, 1918. Previous to this he had married a Fallon girl, Miss Mary Blakeney, November 24, 1917. After entering the army he went first to Camp Lewis, Washington. He served but twenty-four days at Lewis, ten days at Camp Kearny, California, and four days in New York before going overseas. He was a member of Company A, 127th Infantry, 32d Division. This Division had been fighting with the Third Corps in the counter-offensive on the Vesle, and at about the time he joined them, they were relieved and sent north to the region of the Soissons.

There they joined a French corps and attacked from August 28th to the 31st, capturing Juvingny and reaching the Chauny-Soissons road after a desperate battle. On September 30th the 32d Division relieved the 37th in the line south of Cierges. The 32d captured Ciergas, relieved the 91st, and took the town of Gesnes. On October 8th a brigade of the 91st again took its position on the left of the 32d and the two divisions drove northward side by side. The 32d took Romagne-sous-Montfaucon and by the 18th of October were in the Bois de Bantherville. There the division was relieved by the 89th. During this advance, Private Hall served with his unit until he was taken ill with influenza. He was taken from the line and sent to Base Hospital No. 44 at Nevers, where on the 9th of October, 1918, he passed away. The Churchill County boy leaves his widow, Mrs. May Hall, his father, J. W. Hall, and his brother, Earl Hall, all of Fallon, Nevada, to mourn his loss but to glory in his heroism.