BORN HULL 1895. ONLY SON OF GEORGE ARTHUR HALL (1862-1925) & ELLEN TURRELL (1863-1934), OF PATRINGTON HALL, EASINGTON AND THE DAIRYCOATES INN, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. HE HAD FOUR SISTERS AND WAS A NATIVE OF HULL. EDUCATED AT HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL. DESTINED FOR A PROMISING NAVAL CAREER.
SERVED ON HMS “CONWAY” (TRANING SHIP) FOR TWO YEARS. JOINED THE STEAM PACIFIC NAVIGATION COMPANY, LIVERPOOL, AS A FIRST CADET. RECEIVED HIS MASTER’S SEA CERTIFICATE ON 28/06/1915, TOOK A NAVAL COMMISSION IN NOVEMBER 1916, WHERE HE WAS PLACED ON A MINSWEEPER, AS FIRST OFFICER. HE OBTAINED HIS FIRST MATE’S CERTIFICATE AT HARWICH ON 16/05/1917.
HE WAS LOST AT SEA ON 17/11/1917, AGED 22. LEFT £143 IN HIS WILL, TO HIS FATHER, GEORGE ARTHUR HALL, A BEER RETAILER, AT THE “HALF WAY” HOUSE PUB, NEWINGTON ROAD AND THE “DAIRYCOATES INN”, HESSLE ROAD, HULL. HIS NAME IS RECORDED ON THE HULL GRAMMAR SCHOOL WW1 MEMORIAL AND LISTED ON THE CHATHAM NAVAL MEMORIAL, IN KENT.
HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL, ON 23/11/1917. *
HMS Marsa was a British Admiralty Minesweeper. She was originally called Mars and owned by Glasgow & South Western Railway Company Glasgow before being requisitioned in 1916 by the Admiralty as minesweeper. On the 18th November 1918 she was run down by a British Destroyer and sunk. Read more at wrecksite: https://www.wrecksite.eu/wreck.aspx?31121
