TREVOR CHARLES HALL

Born

On 11 April 1922 at Penguin.

Connection to South Riana

Worked in South Riana.

Parents

Charles Henry HALL and Myrtle Sarah DOBSON who were married at Pinewood on 17 March 1915.

Siblings

Willie 1916 – 1916

Theadora Myrtle Sarah 1917 – 2012

Walter Charles 1919 – 2011

John Charles 1924 -  2004

Royce Henry 1928 – 2014

Eric James 1931

Married

Dorothy Laura MARSHALL (1925 – 2016) on 31 July 1945 at The Parsonage, East Devonport.

Family

Ronald Trevor 1945

Patricia Anne 1946

Glenn Charles 1952

Maree 1956

Wayne Gregory 1959

Died

4 June 2015 at Devonport and is buried at Mersey Vale Memorial Park.

School Records

Number 472 Riana State School, enrolled by his father Charles Henry Hall, farmer of Riana, living 4 miles from the school. The last school Trevor attended was Invermay (Launceston) which he left in June 1930. His date of admission to Riana State School was 22 July 1930 He left in March 1933 to take up correspondence education.

Military Records

Service number T28284, Sapper with 8 Works and Parks Coy, enlisted at Burnie on 10 September 1941. Gave his birthdate as 11 April 1921, next of kin as Charles, his father. He was an unmarried lorry driver working at South Riana. He commenced Full Time Duty on 4 November 1941, was hospitalized with tonsillitis at the end of December, then was transferred to Area 50 and discharged on 29 December 1941.

Service number 89053 L.A.C. No 5 Airfield Construction Coy. Trained at Shepparton and Lara Junction as a plant operator. He served on Moratai Island then the landing at Tarakan, Borneo where air-strips were constructed. He remained there until the end of the war when he was discharged on 8 February 1946.

Two photographs of Trevor courtesy of Jason Butler.