HALL, William
| Service Number: | 5023 |
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| Enlisted: | Not yet discovered |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 28th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Blyth, Northumberland, United Kingdom, 5 March 1881 |
| Home Town: | Jarrahdale, Serpentine-Jarrahdale, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Admitted to Bamburgh Church of England Aided First School 1887. |
| Occupation: | Mill Worker |
| Died: | Killed in Action, Passchendaele, Belgium, 20 September 1917, aged 36 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Panel 7 - 17 - 23 - 25 - 27 - 29 - 31., Menin Gate Memorial, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium, Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery, Lijssenthoek, Flanders, Belgium, Buttes New British Cemetery, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, Ypres, Flanders, Belgium |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Jarrahdale Roll Of Honor WW1, Jarrahdale War Memorial, Menin Gate Memorial (Commonwealth Memorial to the Missing of the Ypres Salient) |
World War 1 Service
| 18 Jul 1916: | Involvement Private, 5023, 28th Infantry Battalion, Third Ypres, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '16' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Seang Bee embarkation_ship_number: A48 public_note: '' | |
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| 18 Jul 1916: | Embarked Private, 5023, 28th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Seang Bee, Fremantle |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
Births Mar 1881 HALL William Tynemouth 10b 238.
He was Killed in action at Passchendaele 20 September 1917 aged 37.
Son of Robert and Elizabeth Hall.
Next of kin listed as his brother John Hall.
Brother of Albert and Philip Hall who also fell.
In the 1911 census he was living with his stepfather, John Wallace, aged 30, a General Labourer, born Ulgham, Northumberland, resident 1 South Victoria Terrace, Bamburgh, Northumberland; also present was his brother Albert.
Emigrated to Australia aged 30.
His two brothers also fell and they are remembered with him on the Bamburgh Castle War Memorial.
Bamburgh Castle is a castle on the northeast coast of England, by the village of Bamburgh in Northumberland.It is off the B1340 road at Berwick Upon Tweed, Northumberland, NE69 7DF. Bamburgh is a village and civil parish on the coast of Northumberland, England.
The castle, which was the seat of the former Kings of Northumbria, is noted for its association with the Victorian era heroine Grace Darling, who is buried there.
His brothers were:
Private Philip Hall, Service Number 269, 16th Battalion, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.-Died 16th May 1915 of wounds sustained at Gallipoli, aged 23.
Sapper Albert Hall, Service Number 461030, 15th Field Company, Royal Engineers. Killed in action 27th May 1918, aged 31.
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