Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of Mrs Esther Smith.

Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Coalville Times article - Friday May 4th, 1917

LOCAL CASUALTIES

Private Roland Hall, of the Manchester Regiment, late of the Leicesters, whose mother and step-father, Mr and Mrs Smith, reside at 5, Club Row, Coalville, is officially reported to have been killed in action on the 14th April. He was 33 years of age, and before leaving Coalville to live at Manchester, he worked at Whitwick Colliery, and also the South Leicestershire Colliery. Private Hall gained distinction as a boxer whilst serving in a battalion of the Leicestershire Regiment in India, where he won several trophies, and in Leicester, Loughborough, Hinckley, and other places was well-known in the ring. He was a reservist of the Leicestershire Regiment, and re-joining the army at Manchester, was afterwards transferred to the Manchester Regiment. He was a single man.

Research undertaken and submitted by Andy Murby 19/10/2017