HALL, Phillip
| Service Number: | 269 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 October 1914, Blackboy Hill, WA |
| Last Rank: | Private |
| Last Unit: | 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1) |
| Born: | Bamburgh, Northumberland, United Kingdom, 12 January 1892 |
| Home Town: | Perth, Western Australia |
| Schooling: | Bamburgh Church of England Aided First School 1892. |
| Occupation: | Paper hanger and painter. |
| Died: | Gun Shot Wound to abdomen sustained at Gallipoli, Egypt, 16 May 1915, aged 23 years |
| Cemetery: |
Alexandria (Chatby) Military and War Memorial Cemetery Section L. Grave 180. , Chatby Military and War Memorial Cemetery, Alexandria, Egypt |
| Memorials: | Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Oct 1914: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 269, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), Blackboy Hill, WA | |
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| 22 Dec 1914: | Involvement Private, 269, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), ANZAC / Gallipoli, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '12' embarkation_place: Melbourne embarkation_ship: HMAT Ceramic embarkation_ship_number: A40 public_note: '' | |
| 22 Dec 1914: | Embarked Private, 269, 16th Infantry Battalion (WW1), HMAT Ceramic, Melbourne |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Geoffrey Gillon
[Births Mar 1892 Hall Philip Belford10b 420]
He was 23 and the son of Robert and Elizabeth Hall. Next of kin listed as his brother John Hall.
In the 1901 census he was aged 9, stepson of John Wallace, son of Elizabeth Wallace, born Bamburgh, resident South Victoria Terrace, Bamburgh, Belford, Northumberland; natural brother to Jane B (21), William (20), John (17), Albert (13), Dulcie R (12).
Bamburgh is a village and civil parish on the coast of Northumberland, England.
The village is notable for the nearby Bamburgh Castle, a castle which was the seat of the former Kings of Northumbria, and for its association with the Victorian era heroine Grace Darling, who is buried there.
He emigrated to Australia aged 20.
He enlisted at Blackboy Hill, Perth, Western Australia.
His two brothers also fell:
Sapper Albert Hall, Service Number 461030, killed in action aged 31 whilst serving with the 15th Field Company, Royal Engineers.
Private William Hall, Service Number 5023, killed in action at Passchendaele 20th September 1917 aged 37, whilst serving with the 28th Battalion, Australian Infantry, A.I.F.
The three brothers are commemorated together on the Bamburgh Castle war memorial in Northumberland. Bamburgh Castle is a castle on the northeast coast of England, by the village of Bamburgh in Northumberland.It is off the B1340 road at Berwick Upon Tweed, Northumberland, NE69 7DF. Here Phillip’s name is spelt Philip which matches his birth registration but not his attestation record.
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