Four: Chief Petty Officer A. E. Hall, Royal Navy

1914-15 Star (150745, A. E. Hall, C.P.O., R.N.); British War and Victory Medals (150745 A. E. Hall. C.P.O. R.N.) BWM officially re-impressed; Royal Navy L.S. & G.C., E.VII.R. (150745 A. E. Hall. P.O. 1 Cl. H.M.S. Commonwealth.) nearly very fine (4) £100-£140

Albert Edward Hall was born on 13 January 1874, at Mawnan, Cornwall, and commenced his naval service as a Boy Second Class in H.M.S. Ganges, on 14 August 1880. He was advanced to Able Seaman, H.M.S. Bellona, on 1 February 1893; Leading Seaman, H.M.S. Hood on 19 August 1896; and Petty Officer Second Class on 19 September 1899. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal on 2 February 1907, and was promoted Acting Chief Petty Officer, H.M.S. Commonwealth, on 28 December 1910, and Chief Petty Officer, H.M.S. Forth on 28 October 1911. He joined the Royal Fleet Reserve in 1914, and served in H.M.S. Caesar for most of the Great War, prior to being invalided from the service in 1918.