Hi Daryl, Many thanks to you and others involved for prompt and very informative reply to my request. I can now see the slight problem with dates, thanks Joan. I am currently researching two of our ex boys who migrated to Australia in the late 1800s early 1900s. Both served with The Australian army in WW1 and both were killed in action. It was the other one, James Toohey, that joined in 1916. He was killed in Flanders in 1917. Kind regards Edward Grant ----- Original Message ----- From: "Daryl K Povey" <povey.daryl.k@sebas.vic.edu.au> To: "Edward grant" <gallopinggs@hotmail.com> Sent: Thursday, December 14, 2006 9:31 AM Subject: Re: Frederick George HALL > Hello Edward > > Here is some information I have been able to assemble... > > > Book: "Victoria - The Education Departments Record of War Service > 1914-1919" > > PRIVATE FREDERICK G. HALL. > Private Frederick George Hall, killed in action, was born in Sussex, > England. His father was in the British army. (He died when the subject of > this brief sketch was a boy.) Resolved to follow in his father's > footsteps, F. G. Hall entered the Duke of York's Royal Military School at > Chelsea. > Rising through successive ranks, he obtained a studentship, and, when the > school was rebuilt at Dover, he moved with it. After three years' training > as a student, he passed his final examination in July, 1912, but decided > to come to Australia rather than pass into the Corps of Army > Schoolmasters. He joined the service of this Department, being appointed > temporary head teacher at School No. 2774, Kinimakatka, and afterwards > occupying a similar position at School No. 2886, Yanac-a-Yanac North. He > obtained the Second-class Certificate, and was > appointed head teacher (permanent) at Schools No. 2780 and 3143, Charam > and Jallakin. His reports show him to have been an earnest and zealous > teacher, always bright, eager, and painstaking. His nearest relatives live > in England. He enlisted on the 4th of November, 1914, > and embarked with the 8th Reinforcements to the 8th Light Horse Regiment. > He proceeded from Egypt to Gallipoli, joined his unit on the 27th of July, > 1915, arid was killed on the 7th of August. For some of the personal > details set out above, and for the portrait reproduced, we are indebted to > a personal friend and comrade of Private Hall-Mr. C. C. Harvey, a Master > at the Church of England Grammar School, Melbourne. > > > > > > ================================================================================ > Individual Report for Frederick George HALL > ================================================================================ > Name: Frederick George HALL > Sex: M > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Individual Information > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Birth: 1891 - St Mary's Portsea, Portsmouth, Hampshire (Ham), > England > (1, 2, 3) > Death: 7 Aug 1915 - "The Nek" Walker's Ridge, Anzac, Gallipoli > Peninsular, Turkey (1, 4) > Burial: in (No Known Grave) Gallipoli, Turkey (1, 4) > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Events > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > 1. He had a residence in 1891 in Portsmouth, Hampshire (Ham), England. > 2. He immigrated in 1912 to Australia. (4) > 3. He worked as a Temporary Head Teacher circa 1912 in Kinimakatka S.S. > 2774, Victoria, Australia. (5) > 4. He worked as a Temporary Head Teacher circa 1912 in Yanac-A-Yanac > North > S.S. 2886 (Nr Nhill), Victoria, Australia. (5) > 5. He worked as a Head Teacher from circa 1912 to 1914 in Charam S.S. > 2780 > (Nr Edenhope), Victoria, Australia. (5) > 6. He worked as a Head Teacher from circa 1912 to 1914 in Jallakin S.S. > 3134 > (Nr Goroke), Victoria, Australia. (5) > 7. Military: +WW1 Tpr 760, 8th Light Horse Regiment, AIF, enlisted, 5 > Nov > 1914, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. (1, 4) > 8. Military: +WW1 Tpr 760, 8th Light Horse Regiment (3rd > Reinforcements), > AIF, embarked per "Pera", 8 Feb 1915, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. > (3) > 9. Military: +WW1 Tpr 760, 8th Light Horse Regiment, AIF, Joined Unit, > 27 > Jul 1915, Anzac Cove, Gallipoli Peninsular, Turkey. (3) > 10. Military: +WW1 Tpr 760, 8th Light Horse Regiment, AIF, KIA, 7 Aug > 1915, > "The Nek" Walker's Ridge, Anzac, Gallipoli Peninsular, Turkey. > 11. Military: +WW1 Lone Pine Memorial, 1920, Anzac, Gallipoli > Peninsular, > Turkey. > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Parents > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Father: Thomas Calcott HALL ( ) > Mother: Harriet ( ) > ================================================================================ > Source Citations > ================================================================================ > 1. Australian War Memorial. > > 2. Book: "Gallipoli Heroes" - Graeme Massey. > > 3. National Archives of Australia website - [www.naa12.naa.gov.au]. > > 4. Book: "Maygar's Boys" a biographical history of the 8th Light Horse > Regiment, - Cameron Simpson (ex 105th Fld Battery, RAA). > > 5. Victorian Education Department's Record of War Service 1914-1919. > > > Regards > Daryl Povey > > > At 09:31 PM 13/12/2006, you wrote: >>By way of introduction I am Edward Grant, secretary of The Duke of Yorks >>Royal Military School OBA Downunder. The School was founded by HRH >>Frederick, Duke of York in 1803 and is situated in Dover, Kent, UK. I am >>trying to get some information on a Frederick George Hall, an old boy from >>that school who came to Australia in the early 1800s. He was a school >>master in Goroke in 1916 and joined the Australian army in that year >>serving with the 8th Light Horse Regt. He was killed in action at >>Gallipoli on the 7th of August 1915 and is buried at Loan Pine, Gallipoli. >>His name is inscribed on the School Chapel wall of remembrance in Dover >>and at the Australian War memorial in Canberra. If there is a war memorial >>in Goroke I would like to know if his name is inscribed on it and any >>other information that may be available on Mr Hall in that town, also >>whether there are any descendants of his still living in the area. I am >>trying to put together an article on ex Duke of York boys who came to >>Australia pre WW1 for our historical records. >> >>Yours in anticipation >> >>Edward Grant > > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > Daryl Povey - povey.daryl.k@sebas.vic.edu.au > > Ballarat & District Genealogical Society, Victoria, Australia... > http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/ > Casterton & District Historical Society... > http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/casterton/historicalsociety.htm > 105th Field Battery, Royal Australian Artillery Association... > http://www.ballaratgenealogy.org.au/105/ > Now hosted by... > http://www.ballarat.vic.au/ > -------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >