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HALL, NORMAN JOHN ALEXANDER

 PORTRAIT OF 2033 CORPORAL NORMAN HALL, 52ND (LATE 12TH) BATTALION, KILLED IN ACTION, 1916-08-13.

Mrs. A. Crooks, 20 Mary Street, North Hobart whose son Lance-Corporal Norman J. A. Hall, was reported missing on the 14th of August has received word from Chaplain McKenzie to the effect that he was killed on that date. Chaplain McKenzie states in his letter to Mrs. Crooks that while seeking for comrades on the battlefield beyond Pozieres he came across Lance Corporal Hall who had been killed by shell fire laying as the chaplain said with his face to the foe. There a grave was dug and he was buried. Lance Corporal Hall who landed on Gallipoli on the 16th June and was there until the evacuation was six months in the desert of Egypt and then went on to France. He had never had a day's sickness from the time of landing at Gallipoli until the day of his death. His brother, Private Eric A. Hall, who left "The Mercury" office to join the colours was in the first landing at Gallipoli also saw five and a half months' fighting there, and is now wounded in France.

The Mercury 21^st November 1916

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