Hector Samuel HALLAM

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HALLAM, Hector Samuel

Service Number:	27829
Enlisted:	8 October 1940
Last Rank:	Leading Aircraftman
Last Unit:	Not yet discovered
Born:	Warracknabeal, Victoria, Australia, 6 September 1905
Home Town:	Mount Gambier, Mount Gambier, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Fitter (Machinist)
Died:	Clapham, Adelaide, South Australia, cause of death not yet discovered, date not yet discovered
Cemetery:	Centennial Park Cemetery, South Australia
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World War 2 Service

8 Oct 1940:	Involvement 27829
8 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide
8 Oct 1940:	Enlisted Royal Australian Air Force, Leading Aircraftman, 27829
22 Nov 1945:	Discharged

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Biography contributed by Chris Buckley

Elder of two brothers (Hector and Leslie) who served in WWII, Leading Aircraftman Hector Samuel Hallam (Service No:27829) enlisted in the RAAF at No 5 Recruiting Centre Adelaide on 8 October 1940 as an Aircraftman I - mustered as Trainee Instrument Repairer, re mustered as Instrument Repairer. Promoted to Leading Aircraftman on 25 June 1941, he was attached to 12 Repair and Salvage Unit (RSU) and 11 Squadron in 1942, and to 13 Aircraft Depot (AD) Tocumwal and No 9 Stores Depot in 1943. LAC Hallam was attached to 1 Aircraft Depot (DHQ) at Discharge on 22 November 1945.

Hector was born in Warracknabeal, Victoria in 1905, eldest of four children of Frederick Ernest Hallam (b1875 in Werrigar via Warracknabeal, Victoria) and Ellen (Helen) Elizabeth Payne (b1882 in Melbourne, Victoria). Frederick and Helen married in 1902 in Warracknabeal, where they settled and raised their family and Frederick worked as a Farm Hand and Labourer.

Hector worked as a Boot Repairer in Warracknabeal before marrying Florence Cecelia Conroy (b1904 in Stawell, Victoria) in 1926 in Warracknabeal. In the early 1930s Hector and Florence moved to Mount Gambier, where they settled and raised their family and Hector worked as a Fitter (Machinist) for Rawling Implement Factory). Following his Discharge from the RAAF, Hector and Florence settled in Mount Gambier and Adelaide, where Hector died in 1977. Florence died in 1998.

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