Orders, Decorations and Medals

Four: Leading Telegraphist S. A. Hall, South African Naval Forces, late Royal Navy

British War and Victory Medals (J.42663 S. A. Hall, Tel. R.N.); War and Africa Service Medals (584987 S. A. Hall) good very fine (4) £60-80

Samuel Alfred Hall was born in Brighton, Sussex on 10 March 1900. A Telegraph Messenger by occupation, he joined the Royal Navy as a Boy 2nd Class on 27 July 1915 and was advanced to Boy Telegraphist on the training ship Impregnable in February 1916. Ranked as such, his first seagoing appointment was on the battleship Dreadnought, August 1916-August 1918, where he was promoted to Ordinary Telegraphist in September 1917 and Telegraphist in March 1918. He then served on Patriot, August-November 1918; Collingwood, November 1918-May 1919; Victory I, May-June 1919 and Birmingham, June 1919-November 1920. Hall purchased his discharge on 20 November 1920. He then emigrated to South Africa and enlisted into the Cape Town City Corporation Metropolitan Fire Brigade, December 1920-June 1927 and was placed on the naval reserve. On 26 November 1942 he enlisted for service with the S.A.N.F. Reserve and successfully completed a Signallers Course with the South African Corps of Signals at Potchefstroom on 27 July 1942. On 1 February 1943 he was transferred to the S.A.N.F. and served throughout the war. As a Leading Telegrapher he was discharged on 24 November 1945.

With South African medal forwarding slip; South African Record of Service and associated letter dated 3 June 1954; copied R.N. service paper and service notes, with copied photograph of Hall with family members.