Allan David Mckenzie HallAge: 691895–1964
- Name
- Allan David Mckenzie Hall
- Given names
- Allan David Mckenzie
- Surname
- Hall
Birth | 1895 29 27 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia |
Australian History | 1895 Note: The premiers, except for those of Queensland and Western Australia, agree to implement the Corowa proposals. Note: Waltzing Matilda is first sung in public, in Winton, Queensland Note: Banjo Paterson publishes The Man from Snowy River |
Australian History | 1896 (Age 12 months) Note: The Bathurst Conference (the second 'people's convention') meets to discuss the 1891 draft constitution |
Australian History | 1897 (Age 2) Note: In two sessions, the Second National Australasian Convention meets (with representatives from all colonies except Queensland present). They agree to adopt a constitution based on the 1891 draft, and then revise and amend it later that year. Note: Catherine Helen Spence became the first female political candidate for political office, standing for election as a representative for South Australia. |
Australian History | 1898 (Age 3) Note: The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people. Note: After much public debate, the Victorian, South Australian and Tasmanian referendums are successful; the New South Wales referendum narrowly fails. Later New South Wales votes 'yes' in a second referendum, and Queensland and Western Australia also vote to join. |
Birth of a brother | 1899 (Age 4) Wyuna, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Stuart Norman Hall
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Australian History | 1899 (Age 4) Note: The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney. Note: The Australian Labor Party holds office for a few days in Queensland, becoming the first trade union party to do so anywhere in the world. Note: The first contingents from various Australian colonies are sent to South Africa to participate in the Second Boer War. |
Australian History | 1900 (Age 5) Note: Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution. Note: The constitution is passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom as a schedule to the Commonwealth of Australia Constitution Act, and is given royal assent |
Australian History | 1901 (Age 6) Note: (01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General Note: The first parliament met in Parliament House, Melbourne Note: Immigration Restriction act was introduced- The White Australian Policy Note: The Australian National Flag was flown for the first time |
Death of a paternal grandmother | 14 March 1902 (Age 7) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
paternal grandmother -
Mary Corbett
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Australian History | 1902 (Age 7) Note: The Franchise Act guarantees women the right to vote in federal elections (by this stage, most states had already done this). However, it excludes most non-European ethnic groups, including Aboriginal people, unless already registered to vote on State roles. Note: King Edward VII approved the design of the Australian flag. Note: Breaker Morant is executed for having shot Boers who had surrendered |
Australian History | 1903 (Age 8) Note: The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice. Note: The Defence Act gives the federal government full control over the Australian Army Note: Alfred Deakin elected Prime Minister |
Birth of a sister | 1904 (Age 9) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Vera May Hall
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Australian History | 1904 (Age 9) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government |
Birth of a brother | 1906 (Age 11) Tatura, Victoria, Australia
younger brother -
Eric Hall
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Australian History | 1906 (Age 11) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea |
Birth of a sister | 1908 (Age 13) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Claire Abigail Hall
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Australian History | 1908 (Age 13) Note: Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country Note: The Dalgety proposal for the national capital is revoked, and Canberra is chosen instead |
Australian History | 1909 (Age 14) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made. |
Australian History | 1910 (Age 15) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government. |
Australian History | 1911 (Age 16) Note: The Royal Australian Navy is founded Note: The Northern Territory comes under Commonwealth control, being split off from South Australia Note: The first national census is conducted. Note: Australian Capital Territory proclaimed. |
Australian History | 1912 (Age 17) Note: Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time Note: Walter Burley Griffin wins a design competition for the new city of Canberra |
Australian History | 1913 (Age 18) Note: Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains. Note: Matthew Flinders refers to New South Wales by the name 'Australia'. |
Australian History | 1913 (Age 18) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place |
Australian History | 1914 (Age 19) Note: Australian soldiers are sent to the First World War. This was first time Australians had fought under the Australian flag, as opposed to that of Britain's. |
Australian History | 1915 (Age 20) Note: (25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April. Note: Jervis Bay Territory comprising 6,677 hectares surrendered and becomes part of the Australia Capital Territory. Note: Surfing is first introduced to Australia Note: Billy Hughes became Prime Minister |
Australian History | 1916 (Age 21) Note: Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill' Note: Australia suffers heavy casualties in the Western Front Battle of the Somme. Note: The Returned Sailors� and Soldiers� Imperial League of Australia, the forerunner to the Returned and Services League of Australia is founded Note: The Labor government under Billy Hughes splits over conscription. First referendum on conscription is rejected |
Australian History | 1917 (Age 22) Note: Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed. Note: Australian 4th Light Horse Brigade launches last cavalry charge in modern warfare to capture Beersheba from the Ottoman Turks. |
Australian History | 1918 (Age 23) Note: (08 AUG) Battle of Amiens Note: Australian troops spearhead 8 August offensive against Hindenberg Line - the 'black day of the German Army'. Note: On 12 August, Australian commander General Sir John Monash is knighted in the field of battle by King George V Note: First World War ends - 60,000 Australians dead. Note: The Darwin Rebellion takes place, with 1,000 demonstrators demanding the resignation of the Administrator of the Northern Territory, John A. Gilruth. |
Birth of a son #1 | 24 June 1919 (Age 24) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
son -
Alan Robert Henry Hall
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Australian History | 1919 (Age 24) Note: Prime Minister Billy Hughes signs Treaty of Versailles: the first signing of an international treaty by Australia. Australia obtains League of Nations mandate over German New Guinea. |
Australian History | 1920 (Age 25) Note: The airline Qantas is founded |
Australian History | 1921 (Age 26) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament |
Australian History | 1922 (Age 27) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney |
Australian History | 1923 (Age 28) Note: Vegemite is first produced |
Marriage of a sister | Claire Abigail Hall - View family 1926 (Age 31) Victoria, Australia
brother-in-law -
Leslie Gordon Kittle
younger sister -
Claire Abigail Hall
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Australian History | 1926 (Age 31) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held |
Australian History | 1927 (Age 32) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital |
Australian History | 1928 (Age 33) Note: Bert Hinkler makes the first successful flight from Britain to Australia, and Charles Kingsford Smith makes the first flight from the United States to Australia. The Shrine of Remembrance is built. |
Australian History | 1929 (Age 34) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia. |
Australian History | 1930 (Age 35) Note: Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings Note: Phar Lap wins his first Melbourne Cup |
Australian History | 1931 (Age 36) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia |
Australian History | 1932 (Age 37) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister |
Australian History | 1933 (Age 38) Note: Western Australia votes at a rerefendum to secede from the Commonwealth, but the vote is ignored by both the Commonwealth and British governments |
Australian History | 1936 (Age 41) Note: The last Thylacine dies |
Australian History | 1937 (Age 42) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins |
Australian History | 1938 (Age 43) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games |
Australian History | 1939 (Age 44) Note: (April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government Note: (September) Australia enters the Second World War following the German Invasion of Poland. The 2nd Australian Imperial Force is raised. Note: The first flight is made by an Australian-made warplane, the Wirraway Note: Victoria is devastated by the Black Friday bushfires |
Australian History | 1940 (Age 45) Note: A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin Note: Fascist Italy enters war, Royal Australian Navy engages Italian Navy in the early stages of the Battle of the Mediterranean. |
Australian History | 1941 (Age 46) Note: 3 Divisions of the 2nd Australian Imperial Force join operations in the Mediterranean. After initial successes against Italy, 2nd AIF suffered defeat against the Germans in Greece, Crete, and North Africa. Note: Apr-Aug, Australian garrison (Rats of Tobruk) halt advance of Hitler's panzers for the first time during the Siege of Tobruk. Note: Menzies resigns and John Curtin becomes Prime Minister in the Curtin Government of 1941-45. |
Australian History | 1942 (Age 47) Note: Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese Note: 1942-43 - Japanese air raids - almost 100 attacks against sites in the Northern Territory, Western Australia and Queensland. Note: The Royal Australian Navy and 6th and 7th Divisions of 2nd AIF are recalled from Mediterranean Theatre to participate in the anticipated Battle of Australia. Note: 1942-3 - Sparrow Force engages in guerilla campaign in Battle of Timor Note: Battle of the Coral Sea - United States and Royal Australian Navy halt advance of the Japanese towards Port Moresby (Australian Territory of Papua) Note: Battle of Kokoda Trail - Australian soldiers halt Japanese march on Port Moresby Note: Aug-Sep, Australian forces inflict the first defeat on the Imperial Japanese Army in the Battle of Milne Bay. Note: Jul-Nov, Australia's 9th Division plays crucial role in the First and Second Battle of El Alamein, which turned the North Africa Campaign in favour of the Allies. Note: National daylight saving is introduced as a war time measure. Note: The UK Statute of Westminster is formally adopted by Australia. The Statute formally grants Australia the right to pass laws that conflict with UK laws. |
Death of a father | 15 January 1943 (Age 48) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
father -
David Henry Hall
|
Australian History | 1943 (Age 48) Note: Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary. Note: 2,815 Australian Pows die constructing Japan's Burma-Thailand Railway Note: 1943-44 - Australian forces engage Japan in New Guinea, Wau, and the Huon peninsula. |
Australian History | 1944 (Age 49) Note: Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW. Note: Japanese inflict Sandakan Death March on 2,000 Australian and British prisoners of war - only 6 survive. The single worst war crime perpetrated against Australians. Note: Australian forces battle Japanese garrisons from Borneo to Bougainville. Note: The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme is introduced, providing subsidised medicine to all Australians |
Australian History | 1945 (Age 50) Note: the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader. Note: Australian forces lead Battle of Borneo Note: (7 May) Nazi Germany surrenders Note: (July) Prime Minister Curtin dies and is replaced by Ben Chifley and the Chifley Labor Government Note: (1 August) Japan Surrenders Note: Australia becomes a founding member of the United Nations Note: The Sydney-Hobart Yacht Race is held for the first time |
Australian History | 1946 (Age 51) Note: Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme Note: Norman Makin, is voted in as the first President of the United Nations Security Council. |
Australian History | 1948 (Age 53) Note: Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly. Note: Australia becomes a signatory to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. |
Death of a brother | 1949 (Age 54) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia
elder brother -
Ivan John Alexander Hall
|
Australian History | 1949 (Age 54) Note: Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins Note: All indigenous ex-servicemen and any Indigenous Australians who are eligible to vote in State Elections (NSW, VIC, SA and TAS) are given an unrestricted right to vote in Federal Elections. Note: The Nationality and Citizenship Act is passed. Rather than being identified as subjects of Britain, the Act established Australian citizenship for people who met eligibility requirements. Note: Menzies returns to power as leader of the new Liberal Party Menzies Government. |
Australian History | 1950 (Age 55) Note: 1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea. Note: Voters reject a referendum to change the Constitution to allow the Menzies Government to ban the Communist Party |
Australian History | 1951 (Age 56) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand |
Australian History | 1952 (Age 57) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia. |
Death of a mother | 1954 (Age 59) Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia
mother -
Isabella McKenzie
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Australian History | 1954 (Age 59) Note: Elizabeth II and Prince Philip make a royal visit; the Soviet diplomat Vladimir Petrov defects, leading to the Petrov Affair and another split in the Labor Party |
Australian History | 1955 (Age 60) Note: Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement Note: Australia becomes involved in Malayan Insurgence Note: Hotels in New South Wales no longer have to close at 6 p.m., ending the 'six o'clock swill' |
Australian History | 1956 (Age 61) Note: Television in Australia is launched. Note: Melbourne holds the Olympics Note: performing artist Barry Humphries introduces Edna Everage to the Australian stage |
Australian History | 1957 (Age 62) Note: The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts. Note: Slim Dusty's Australian country music hit Pub With No Beer becomes the first Australian song to attain international chart success. |
Death of a sister | 1962 (Age 67) Kew, Victoria, Australia
younger sister -
Claire Abigail Hall
|
Australian History | 1962 (Age 67) Note: Robert Menzies' Commonwealth Electoral Act provided that all Indigenous Australians should have the right to enrol and vote at federal elections, removing remaining restrictions applying in QLD, WA and NT. Note: Malayan Insurgence ends |
Australian History | 1964 (on the date of death) Note: The Beatles tour Australia; Note: 82 sailors die when HMAS Voyager sinks after being rammed by HMAS Melbourne; Note: The editors of Oz magazine are charged with obscenity; Note: PM Robert Menzies announces the reintroduction of compulsory military service for men aged from 18-25 years old; Note: First troops sent to Vietnam War. |
Death | 1964 (Age 69) Victoria, Australia |
Family with parents - View family |
father |
David Henry Hall
Birth 18 September 1865 38 33 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 15 January 1943 (Age 77) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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23 months mother |
Isabella McKenzie
Birth 9 August 1867 Two Mile Hill, Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1954 (Age 86) Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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Marriage: 1889 — Victoria, Australia |
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1 year #1 elder brother |
Ivan John Alexander Hall
Birth 1890 24 22 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1949 (Age 59) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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2 years #2 elder brother |
Desmond Clyde Hall
Birth 1892 26 24 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 4 January 1965 (Age 73) Barham, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
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3 years #3 himself |
Allan David Mckenzie Hall
Birth 1895 29 27 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1964 (Age 69) Victoria, Australia Loading...
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4 years #4 younger brother |
Stuart Norman Hall
Birth 1899 33 31 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1972 (Age 73) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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5 years #5 younger sister |
Vera May Hall
Birth 1904 38 36 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death 1968 (Age 64) Victoria, Australia Loading...
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2 years #6 younger brother |
Eric Hall
Birth 1906 40 38 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
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2 years #7 younger sister |
Claire Abigail Hall
Birth 1908 42 40 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Death 1962 (Age 54) Kew, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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Family with Mary Ellen Jane McFarlane - View family |
himself |
Allan David Mckenzie Hall
Birth 1895 29 27 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1964 (Age 69) Victoria, Australia Loading...
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-4 years wife |
Mary Ellen Jane McFarlane
Birth 1891 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Death 1971 (Age 80) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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#1 son |
Alan Robert Henry Hall
Birth 24 June 1919 24 28 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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#2 son |
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#3 son |
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