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HALL, Arthur
(Service number 58524)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank	Private

Birth

Date	12/12/1897	Place of Birth	Gapes Valley, Geraldine

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Farmer
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Thomas Hall (father) Gapes Valley, Geraldine
Religion	Church of England
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	NZ Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	29th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date	15 August 1917
Transport	HMNZT 92 Ruahine
Embarked From	Wellington	Destination	Glasgow, Scotland

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Infantry Regiment, 1st Battalion

Military Awards

Campaigns
Service Medals
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		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	9 February 1918	Age	20
Place of Death	France
Cause	Kia
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Buttes New Bristish Cemetery, (NZ) Memorial, Polygon Wood, Zonnebeke, West- Vlaanderen, Belgium
Memorial Reference
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Gapes and Beautiful Valley First World War Memorial; Geraldine War Memorial; Geraldine War Memorial

Biographical Notes

son of Thomas and Elizabeth Hall of Gapes Valley, Geraldine. One of 14 children

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Researched and Written by

Liz Shea (SC branch NZSG)

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