HALL, Keith Aitken

  1. Service Details
  2. Personal Details
  3. Unit and Rank Details
  4. Notes
  5. Sources

Service Details

Branch of Service
Army
Conflict
World War I (1914-1918)
Date of Enlistment
01/01/1918
Date of Discharge
28/09/1919
Place of Enlistment
Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT

Personal Details

Gender
Male
Date of Birth
26/09/1896
Place of Birth
South Melbourne, Victoria
Address (at enlistment)
Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT
Occupation
Soldier
Next of Kin
Thomas Frederick William Hall (father), Harold Terrace, Toorak, Victoria

Unit and Rank Details

Final Rank
Lieutenant
Final Unit
46 Battalion

Notes

Hall entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon in February 1915 and graduated at the end of 1917 when he was commissioned as a Lieutenant in a Special Draft of RMC graduates which arrived in England in April 1918. He served in France with the 46th Battalion from July 1918 but, as the AIF pushed towards Peronne in the Somme region, Hall was shot in the foot and scalp and sent to hospital in England where he stayed until after the armistice was signed. He rejoined his unit in December 1918 and spent time in Belgium. Hall served in World War 2 and was discharged in 1949 with the rank of Lieutenant Colonel.

Sources

Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
WWII Nominal Roll http://www.ww2roll.gov.au
AWM Collections Record: P10689.025.007

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Keith Hall (at left), at Waulsort, Belgium in February 1919. AWM image P10689.025.007.

Keith Hall (at left), at Waulsort, Belgium in February 1919. AWM image P10689.025.007.

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