Tasmanian War Casualties

WW1

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HALL, JOHN THOMAS

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Studio portrait of 4811 Private John Thomas Hall of Highthorpe, Tas. Pte Hall enlisted in the 12th Battalion on 26 October 1915 and embarked with the 1st Reinforcements on board HMT Arcadian on 29 July 1916 bound first for Alexandria, Egypt, and then onto England and training in the 3rd Training Battalion. Pte Hall joined the 12th Battalion in France on 8 September 1916. He was wounded in action on 16 February 1917 and returned to his unit on 3 March 1917. Pte Hall was killed in action in Belgium on 6 October 1917; he was aged 37. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial, Belgium.

When Mr. James Hall (Pine Road) reached Penguin on Friday night on return from a visit to Hobart he found a message awaiting him that his son, Private Walter Hall had been wounded again, the third occasion since he had been in France. Shortly afterwards there came another message to Rev. W. T. Abbott, stating that another soldier son, Private John Thomas Hall had been killed in action on October 6th. In the absence of Mr. Abbott at Hobart the sad duty of breaking the unwelcome news was undertaken by Mr Frank Fielding who had been a fellow passenger to and from the Methodist Assembly Hobart. Much sympathy is felt for the bereaved relatives.

The Examiner Launceston 30^th October 1917

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