Private Austin Hall
Number: 9459
Company: 46th (Belfast) Company, 13th Battalion, First Contingent
ENLISTMENT
Date: 8 January 1900
Place: Belfast
Age: 20 years
Trade or calling: Clerk
Place of birth: In the Parish of Derry, in or near the Town of Londonderry, in the County of Londonderry
Address: Asylum Road, Londonderry
Family: Single. Mother, Scottish-born Elizabeth Hall (nee Greig), of 6 Asylum Road, Londonderry. Brother Thomas Henry Hall in Brooklyn, Chicago; sister Bessie at Gladstone Terrace, Edinburgh. Father James Henry Hall (dec.), merchant tailor.
Previous military service: No
Description: Height 5' 6 3/4". Complexion fresh/ medium, eyes blue, hair brown. Small scar front left leg.
Religion: Presbyterian
ACTIVE SERVICE
Date to South Africa: 3 March 1900
Date home: 9 June 1901
Actions: Lindley, Reddersburg, Dewetsdorp
Service medal, clasps and other awards: Queen's South Africa Medal. Cape Colony, Orange Free State, 1901 clasps.
DISCHARGE
Date: 5 August 1901
Place: Shorncliffe
Reason for discharge: At his own request
Intended place of residence: 6 Asylum Road, Londonderry
Conduct: No documents. From periodical observation and knowledge, very good.
Special qualifications: Clerk
Hall was among the 400 men captured by Boer forces at Lindley in May 1900. He was released on 30 August with the other members of the 13th Battalion when the British captured Nooitgedacht. He was mentioned in a letter home by Private Marshall Donnell.
Coleraine Chronicle, 25 August 1900
On his return to England he was hospitalised at Netley until 4 July, suffering from enteric fever.
He later emigrated to South Africa. On 30 October 1907 he married Petronella Jackson at Sea Point, Western Cape. He died at Salisbury General Hospital, Rhodesia, on 7 May 1959, and was buried in Salisbury Cemetery.
Larne Times, 25 June 1959
First image of Austin Hall from the Belfast Weekly Telegraph, 10 March 1900. Second image sourced from Ancestry.com Public Member Trees - contributor Belinda Hounsell.
This page last updated 24 December 2024.