HALL, Alexander Wesley
| Service Number: | 1530 |
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| Enlisted: | 6 December 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 12th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Latrobe, Tasmania, Australia, January 1884 |
| Home Town: | Fitzroy, Yarra, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Wheelwright |
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World War 1 Service
| 6 Dec 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1530, 12th Infantry Battalion | |
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| 2 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 1530, 12th Infantry Battalion, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '10' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Clan McGillivray embarkation_ship_number: A46 public_note: '' | |
| 2 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 1530, 12th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Clan McGillivray, Melbourne | |
| 6 Sep 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Private, 1530, 12th Infantry Battalion, 6th MD, injury |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Evan Evans
From Sue Guinan, Tasmania in the Great War
LETTERS FROM THE FRONT. "SUDDEN DEATH TO THE TURK."
From Private Alex. (Pat) W. Hall (Penguin) writes to his brother, Mr. N. Hall (Penguin) from Luna Park Hospital under (date August i as -follows:-"Just a few lines to let you know that I am in the hospital. I have got a broken elbow joint. I fell down with a box of ammunition after nearly fourteen weeks on the peninsula. I suppose it was to be a man's fate. Harold and Walter Hall and all the boys from Pengtun came in to seec mue. They are all looking splendid on it, but it won't be long before they lose their condition.. We were all in good nick when we landed on the peninsula. I weighed nearly twelve stone, but I would only weigh about 9.10 now. I think it will be some time before I am back in the firing line again. I am not sorry to be having a spell. It has been very hot, so hot that we did not know what to do to keep ourselves cool. I. think it will not be long now bcfore the brigade will be relieved, and taken for a good rest, which is wanted badly, there being a lot leaving every day for the hospitals with diarrhoea and influenza. The Australians are standing it very well, and it will take a lot to beat them. Our boys are getting anxious again for another go. They enjoy it. When there is something doing they will not spare any of them. It is sudden death' to Mr. Turk when they get hold of him; but it will be a vast sight worse if they get hold of a German officer. We got one, and riddled him from head to foot with bullets. It would not have been too bad for him, for they are horrible murderous looking devils. God only knows what would happen if the Australians got amongst a batch of them. I did not get to the hospital for a week after I got rurt. I was taken to the hospital boat P., where we all stayed four days. We were then shipped to Alexandra, and then to Cairo on the train, and then to Luna Park Hospital. They all look after you well there. The Australian nurses are all a fine lot of women. They can't do enough for you, especially if you have just come from the firing line."