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Trooper (later Sergeant) Arthur Hall

Ancestor Details

Ancestor's Name: Arthur Ernest Hall

Ancestor's date of birth: 11/11/1882

Ancestor's date of death: 07/01/1945

Cause of Death: Not known

Service and Life Before the Boer War: Arthur was a farmer at Freestone, via Warwick Queensland

Service Number: 866

Colony or State of enlistment: QLD, Place of Enlistment: Brisbane

Unit: 1st Battalion Australian Commonwealth Horse (D Company, Queensland)

Rank attained in Boer War: TPR, Date Effective: 1902

Highest Rank attained (if served after war): SGT, Date Effective: 30/05/1916

Murray Page: 524

Contingent: First Australian Commonwealth

Ship: Custodian, Date of Sailing: 18/02/1902

Memorial details: Buried Warwick Queensland

Awards/Decorations/Commendations: Queen's South Africa Medal with Transvaal and South Africa 1902 clasps. British War Medal, Victory Medal.

Personal Characteristics: Height 175 cm, weight 59 kg of fair complexion with blue eyes and brown hair.

Reasons to go and fight: Detail not provided

Details of service in war: March - May 1902 on Natal border and west Transvaal.

Service and life after the Boer War: Arthur served in Australian Light Horse for another 4 years and 4 months. He settled back at Freestone where he worked as an insurance agent, married Eva and had three sons Arthur, Edwin and Dudley. In October 1915 he enlisted in the AIF as part of the 9th Reinforcements for 14 Bn. Transferred to 45 Bn, promoted sergeant, he was woundeed in France on 5 August 1916. Returned to Australia May 1917, blind in the right eye. Discharged 28 August 1917.

Descendant Details

Name of Descendant: Cynthia Anne Edwards, Manunda QLD
Relationship to Ancestor: grand-daughter

 


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