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HALL, Daniel
(Service number 48637)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	15 September 1889	Place of Birth	Fairlie Creek

Enlistment Information

Date	23 January 1917	Age	27 years
Address at Enlistment	Te Rapa
Occupation	Farm hand
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs J. GENNIESEY (sister), Fairlie Creek, South Canterbury (Guinnessey?)
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information	Height 5 feet 9 inches. Weight 164 lbs. Eyes brown. Hair brown. Sight - both eyes 6/6. Hearing & colour vision both normal. Limbs well formed. Full & perfect movement of all joints. Chest well formed. heart & lungs normal. No illnesses. Free from hernia, varicocele, varicose veins, haemorrhoids, inveterate or contagious skin disease. Vaccinated. Good bodily & mental health. No slight defects. No fits.

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	26th Reinforcements, Auckland Infantry Regiment, A Company
Date	9 June 1917
Transport	Willochra
Embarked From		Destination	Devonport, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns	Western European
Service Medals	British War Medal; Victory Medal
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date	16 June 1919	Reason	On the termination of his period of engagement.

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	12 January 1974	Age	83 years
Place of Death	Auckland
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Te Kuiti Cemetery
Memorial Reference	New Lawn, Plot 71
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

Daniel Hall was the son of William and Ellen Hall, both of whom had died before the war. He was educated at the Fairlie School. His brothers James and Alexander also served in World War One.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [21 July 2016]; NZ Defence Force Personnel Records (Archives NZ Ref. AABK 18805 W5539 0049147) [22 July 2016]; NZ BDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [21 July 2016]; School Admission record (South Canterbury Branch NZSG) [21 July 2016]; Timaru Herald, 22 September 1904, Evening Post, 30 September 1918 (Papers Past) [23 July 2016]

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