HALL, Hubert Sylvian
| Service Number: | 100 |
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| Enlisted: | 5 October 1914, 3 years Perth Artillery Battery |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 10th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Roebourne, Western Australia, April 1886 |
| Home Town: | West Leederville, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Station manager |
| Died: | Moora, Western Australia, 1929, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: | Not yet discovered |
| Memorials: | Roebourne War Memorial, West Leederville St Barnabas Anglican Church Honour WW1 Board |
World War 1 Service
| 5 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Trooper, 100, 10th Light Horse Regiment, 3 years Perth Artillery Battery | |
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| 5 Oct 1914: | Promoted AIF WW1, Corporal, 10th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 28 Oct 1914: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 10th Light Horse Regiment | |
| 8 Feb 1915: | Involvement Sergeant, 100, 10th Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Mashobra embarkation_ship_number: A47 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Feb 1915: | Embarked Sergeant, 100, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Mashobra, Fremantle | |
| 17 Aug 1916: | Discharged AIF WW1, Sergeant, 100, 10th Light Horse Regiment, 5th MD -injuries sustained in the course of duty - left arm amputated |
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From AWM
A station manager with three years previous experience in the Perth Battery Field Artillery, 100 Sergeant Hubert Sylvian Hall enlisted on 5 October 1914 and embarked from Fremantle on 8 February 1915 aboard HMAT Mashobra.
On 15 May 1915 he was injured in transit from Heliopolis to Alexandria on a train, suffering severe injuries to his left arm. Although he underwent convalescence in Egypt and rejoined his unit in January 1916, he returned to hospital at Heliopolis and on 22 February 1916, his left arm was amputated. He was invalided to Australia in April 1916 and following hospitalisation in Fremantle, was discharged in August 1916.
In Cecille (Cec) Deakin and Hubert Hall married in Perth in 1916. Born in 1892, Deakin was working at Fremantle Hospital in Perth when she met her future husband, 100 Sergeant Hubert Sylvian Hall, 10th Light Horse Regt of Roebourne, WA. Cec Hall later recalled to her family that Hubert started courting her after he was discharged from hospital and she was still living at the nurses home. Strict curfews for the nurses saw that she and a friend would have to sneak out to meet their beaux. At the end of the evening Hubert, who remained extremely strong despite his amputated right arm, would lift them over the iron railing fence so they could creep back in. On one such evening the couple were not so lucky, with Cec's dress getting caught on an iron picket, she becoming stuck on the fence. Cec and Hubert Hall married in 1916 and had three sons, Geoff, Evan and Peter. In 1929 Hubert died on his farm at Moora, WA. Cecille Hall passed away in 1981, having never remarried.
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