George Fredrick HALL

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HALL, George Fredrick

Service Number:	2301
Enlisted:	18 January 1916
Last Rank:	Trooper
Last Unit:	10th Light Horse Regiment
Born:	Midland Junction, Western Australia, 30 June 1894
Home Town:	Midland Junction, Western Australia
Schooling:	Perth Modern School, Western Australia
Occupation:	University Student
Died:	Killed in Action, Palestine, 19 April 1917, aged 22 years
Cemetery:	Gaza War Cemetery, Israel and Palestine (including Gaza)
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Crawley University of Western Australia Honour Roll, Midland Church of The Ascension Honour Roll, Midland WW1 Clock Tower & Town Hall Memorial

World War 1 Service

18 Jan 1916:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Trooper, 10th Light Horse Regiment
16 May 1916:	Involvement Private, 2301, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Surada embarkation_ship_number: A52 public_note: ''
16 May 1916:	Embarked Private, 2301, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Surada, Fremantle
19 Apr 1917:	Involvement Trooper, 2301, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 2301 awm_unit: 10 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1917-04-19

Threw up his commission and enlisted

Killed in action April 19, in the battle at Gaza in Palestine, previously reported
missing. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hall, Midland Junction. Trooper Hall enlisted immediately after leaving college in December 1914, and carried his rank of Lieutenant to Blackboy. Owing, however, to the rule that no officers under a definite age could be sent to the front, he was transferred to the camp at Rottnest, where the interned Germans were being carefully guarded. Later, wearying of inaction, and feeling every young man's place was at the front, he
threw up his commission, and enlisted in the Expeditionary Forces, where he was soon promoted, leaving the State as a Sergeant of the A.I.F. In Egypt, however, the work of the Light Horse fascinated him, and he transferred to the 10th A.L.H. as a trooper. He joined up with the forces moving towards Jerusalem, and continued with them until his death in the fierce battle outside of Gaza. The "W.A.
Trainee," the official organ of the Claremont Training College, says of him:-"Trooper Hall was senior student during the year 1914, with his friend Sergeant W. L. Goode, and shared with him the goodwill and esteem of both students and staff. In his studies both at College and University he met with very great success. We shall always remember his frank open boyish ways. The writer knew him as the loving and dutiful son, the only one, in fact the" only child, of Mr. and Mrs. Hall, of Byers road, Midland Junction. We extend our deepest sympathy to them."

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