HALL, Charles Arthur Jocelyn
| Service Number: | 527 |
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| Enlisted: | 17 October 1914 |
| Last Rank: | Trooper |
| Last Unit: | 10th Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | London, England, 4 July 1882 |
| Home Town: | Gilberton, Walkerville, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Not yet discovered |
| Occupation: | Farmer |
| Died: | Died of wounds, Gallipoli, Gallipoli, Dardanelles, Turkey, 29 August 1915, aged 33 years |
| Cemetery: |
No known grave - "Known Unto God" Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Memorial, Gallipoli Peninsula, Canakkale Province, Turkey |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Gilberton Soldiers Memorial Swimming Reserve, Kings Park 10th Light Horse Regiment Memorial WA, Lone Pine Memorial to the Missing, Tambellup War Memorial , Walkerville St Andrew's Anglican Church WW1 Memorial Plaque, Walkerville St. Andrew's Anglican Church Honour Roll |
World War 1 Service
| 17 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 527, 10th Light Horse Regiment | |
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| 8 Feb 1915: | Involvement Private, 527, 10th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '3' embarkation_place: Fremantle embarkation_ship: HMAT Mashobra embarkation_ship_number: A47 public_note: '' | |
| 8 Feb 1915: | Embarked Private, 527, 10th Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Mashobra, Fremantle | |
| 29 Aug 1915: | Involvement Trooper, 527, 10th Light Horse Regiment, ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :awm_ww1_roll_of_honour_import: awm_service_number: 527 awm_unit: 10 Light Horse Regiment awm_rank: Trooper awm_died_date: 1915-08-29 |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Nicholas Egan
Margaret Phillips
Club Historian Gilberton Amateur Swimming Club Inc.
The family name was actually Twanbrook-Hall. “Josh” parents were Charles Arthur Twanbrook-Hall, the youngest son of the late William Twanbrook-Hall Esq. of Grappenhall Hall near Warrington, Lancashire and Susan, second daughter of the late Major Richard Butler-Low of the 53 rd Regiment and Limerick Ireland. The had been married at The Forest, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Australia by Rev. G.M.St. M. Ritchie the Military Chaplain on 2 December 1889. ‘Josh’ was born 4/7/1882 in 22 Gloucester Crescent, Hyde Park, London and came to South Australia in 1886. He was educated at Walkerville Primary School and Pulteney Grammar.
Charles had previously served 9 month in South Africa before he had embarked Alexandria to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Force, Gallipoli on 16 May 1915. He was wounded in action in Gallipoli 29 August 1915 and died of shrapnel wound to the abdomen in the 16 th Casualty Clearing Station Gallipoli on the same day.
His mother, Susan (Nancy) died on 10 June 1915 aged 61 years, fourth months after Josh embarked for war.
Tragically the body of his father Charles was discovered amongst the rocks at the southern end of Bondi Beach on 20 th October 1921 with a bullet wound to his temple. When constable Wilikinson arrived he found a seven-chamber .22 calibre revolver clasped in the man’s right hand with one spent chamber.
His son Peter Francis Twanbrook-Hall, a cashier, of Henley Beach Adelaide said his father had been very worried over the death of his wife and son and left Adelaide on the 6 th October stating he was going on a holiday to Melbourne. On the 17 th he received a parcel bearing the Sydney postmark which contained his father’s gold watch and signet ring.
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