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Greetings.

I have found your interesting web site and write to ask if you can help me please. I am doing some amateur genealogy for an elderly friend, who believes that a distant relative of hers, a man named H HALL, was a sailor on the HMAS Sydney during the 1940 period. I am not sure where to look, but I note you illustrate a photo of a wonderful marble memorial at Geraldton, and I wondered if his name was one of the men lost when the ship was sunk off the WA coast.

All this may seem a little vague but I'm afraid I do not have any other details. Is there a web site which lists the names of the sailors inscribed on that memorial?

I trust this enquiry is not an imposition and look forward to your courteous reply with interest.

Yours faithfully 
Ray Kelly

Hello Ray,

If you go to this URL: http://www.hmassydney.com/ you will find a Memorial Wall for all the crew of HMAS Sydney 11 who died when she sank.

But H. Hall is not listed there.

Here are all the Halls who served in the RAN in WW2:

Service:  
Surname (mandatory):  
First Name or Initial:  
Second Name or Initial:  
Date of Birth (dd/mm/yyyy):  
   
Results
criteria  :  Service = RAN, Surname = Hall, First Initial = H  new search 
records  :  13 records.  
Name  Service Number  Date of Birth  Place of Birth  Service
HALL, H G  Not Applicable  Unknown  Unknown  RAN
HALL, HAROLD EDWARD  10889  9 Feb 1898  PORTSMOUTH  RAN
HALL, HAROLD GEORGE  H/V68  20 Mar 1910  PENGUIN, TAS  RAN
HALL, HAROLD GEORGE CHARLES  W/1177  5 Jul 1917  CHINKAPOOK, VIC  RAN
HALL, HARRY  S/8551  14 Jan 1921  ASHFIELD  RAN
HALL, HARRY ALLISON  PM5829  24 Feb 1925  HAWTHORN, VIC  RAN
HALL, HENRY ALBERT LONGDON  R22689  4 Apr 1922  SYDNEY, NSW  RAN
HALL, HENRY BILLIE  R23574  9 Jan 1923  SUBIACO, WA  RAN
HALL, HERBERT MICHAEL  B3398  14 Apr 1923  BRISBANE, QLD  RAN
HALL, HERBERT VICTOR  PA2620  19 Feb 1923  SEMAPHORE, SA  RAN
HALL, HORACE EDWARD  20450  12 Nov 1916  ASHFIELD, NSW  RAN
HALL, HUBERT  B2395  17 Nov 1918  CLEVELAND  RAN
HALL, HUBERT WILLIAM CECIL  Not Applicable  25 Sep 1907  BOWRAVILLE, NSW  RAN

If you can pick your Hall out from this list, you can print out his WW2 Certificate of Service by entering his details.

Go to this site http://WW2roll.gov.au to bring up the Nominal Roll.

Hope this helps a little, if you run into problems please get in touch.

Regards. 
Mackenzie J. Gregory.

Many thanks for your wealth of information. It is obvious I do not have sufficient data on this man, so I will endeavour to obtain, and hopefully will succeed for her.

I'm only a new chum on the net, but each new experience is a new bit of knowledge.

Once again, many thanks 
Ray Kelly

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