Branch of Service

Army

Conflict

World War I (1914-1918)

Date of Enlistment

23/11/1915

Date of Discharge

16/02/1918

Place of Enlistment

Goulburn NSW

Gender

Male

Other Name(s)

Also spelt as 'Sydney'

Place of Birth

Jeir NSW

Address (at enlistment)

Hall ACT

Occupation

Labourer

Next of Kin

Joseph Hall (father), Hall ACT

Service Number

5708

Final Rank

Private

Final Unit

1 Pioneer Battalion AIF

Hall Memorial Grove, Victoria Street, Hall ACT
Hall Public School Roll of Honour
Queanbeyan RSL Wall of Remembrance, Crawford St, Queanbeyan NSW
Wattle Park Uniting Church, Hall

Sid Hall was born in 1894 and lived in Hall. He served initially with the 1st Battalion but transferred to the 1st Pioneer Battalion in September 1916. He was wounded on 6 May 1917 during the Second Battle of Bullecourt and invalided to the Canadian General Hospital in England in July 1917 with a fractured femur and gun shot wound to the left thigh. He returned to Australia and was discharged medically unfit on 9 August 1918. He worked as a steward/cook at the Royal Military College, Duntroon from February 1920 to March 1931. Hall married Dora Hollingsworth (who was also from Hall) in 1920, later became a ranger with the Department of Interior and lived in Ainslie with his family. He died on 15 November 1953 at Canberra Hospital, aged 59. He is buried in the ex-service personnel portion of Woden Cemetery.

Description - height 5 feet 6½ inches, weight 140 pounds, chest 35 inches, blue eyes, fair complexion, brown hair, Methodist.

Rex Cross, 'Bygone Queanbeyan', 1980
Ross Howarth, 'Civilians employed at the Royal Military College of Australia, Duntroon, from 1911 to 1931', RMC Duntroon, November 2000
Our Queanbeyan 'Boys' No.4, Howard & Shearsby, Yass (postcard)
Queanbeyan Age - 17 April 1914, 2 May 1916, 28 June 1918, 27 September 1918
The Canberra Times - 16 January 1942
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
Image and information courtesy of Patricia Kinlyside