HALLAM, Hector Leslie
| Service Number: | 895 |
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| Enlisted: | 25 August 1914, An original of H Company |
| Last Rank: | Sergeant |
| Last Unit: | 8th Infantry Battalion |
| Born: | Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, 1880 |
| Home Town: | Natimuk, Horsham, Victoria |
| Schooling: | Warracknabeal State School, Victoria, Australia |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, At sea (HMHS Gloucester Castle), 6 May 1915 |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Panel 30 |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing |
World War 1 Service
| 25 Aug 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 895, 8th Infantry Battalion, An original of H Company | |
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| 19 Oct 1914: | Involvement Private, 895, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '9' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 19 Oct 1914: | Embarked Private, 895, 8th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Benalla, Melbourne | |
| 28 Apr 1915: | Promoted AIF WW1, Sergeant, 8th Infantry Battalion, Gallipoli | |
| 5 May 1915: | Wounded AIF WW1, Sergeant, 895, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, Wounded at Bolton's Ridge (no details). Evacuated to HS Gloucester Castle, where he died of his wounds the next day and was buried at sea. | |
| 6 May 1915: | Involvement Sergeant, 895, 8th Infantry Battalion, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 895 awm_unit: 8 Battalion awm_rank: Sergeant awm_died_date: 1915-05-06 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Stephen Brooks
Appointed Sergeant, Gallipoli, 28 April 1915, wounded in action, Gallipoli, 5 May 1915; died of wounds aboard the Hospital Ship 'Gloucester Castle' the next day 6 May 1915 and buried at sea between Alexandria and Gallipoli.
According to local papers Hector Hallam and was well-known in district football and boxing circles. He looked after bees at Natimuk, about 25 kilometres west of Horsham Victoria.
On the news of his death at Gallipoli it was reported of Hallam, “owing to his splendid physique, being as tough as nails, so to speak, he would be amongst the first to be picked for the strenuous task of driving back the Turks. Where the task was hardest there would Hallam be, or want to be. He was a rough diamond, and though not generally known, had a poetical taste of no mean order. He had written several poems one being 'How the Skewbald saved the Mallee Block’…..
Hallam was married to Emily Ellen and left two children, Dorothy Jane and Leslie Hallam.
West Wimmera Mail and Natimuk Advertiser 16 April 1915, CORPORAL H. HALLAM WRITES.
We have received the following letter, dated, Mena, March 14, from Corporal H. Hallam,
“I have received the " West Wimmera Mail," and was glad to get it. Always send it. I pass it round to Ted Schunke and Viv Brown. It is worth its weight in gold here in Egypt. Viv and Ted are as well as can be, and they ask me to let the Football Club know through your paper that they send their best wishes for the coming season, and please state that though they are not with the boys they are still wearing the old blue and white, for our regimental colours happen to be blue and white. Would you kindly give my best wishes to the Lowan Footballers, and tell them that I wish them good luck and hope to be back for the final. I have had four fights in the soldiers' stadium. I won three and lost one, being beaten by the champion of the force….”