Vera May Hall 1904

Vera May HallAge: 641904–1968

Name: Vera May Hall

Given names: Vera May

Surname: Hall

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Birth	1904 38 36 Tatura, Victoria, Australia
Marriage	Fred Johnson - View family
Australian History	1904 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 2) Tatura, Victoria, Australia younger brother - Eric Hall
Australian History	1906 (Age 2) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Birth of a sister	1908 (Age 4) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia younger sister - Claire Abigail Hall
Australian History	1908 (Age 4) 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 5) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History	1910 (Age 6) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History	1911 (Age 7) 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 8) 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 9) 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 9) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History	1914 (Age 10) 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 11) 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 12) 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 13) 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 14) 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.
Australian History	1919 (Age 15) 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 16) Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History	1921 (Age 17) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History	1922 (Age 18) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History	1923 (Age 19) Note: Vegemite is first produced
Marriage of a sister	Claire Abigail Hall - View family 1926 (Age 22) Victoria, Australia brother-in-law - Leslie Gordon Kittle younger sister - Claire Abigail Hall
Australian History	1926 (Age 22) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History	1927 (Age 23) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History	1928 (Age 24) 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 25) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History	1930 (Age 26) 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 27) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History	1932 (Age 28) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Australian History	1933 (Age 29) 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 32) Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History	1937 (Age 33) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History	1938 (Age 34) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History	1939 (Age 35) 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 36) 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 37) 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 38) 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 39) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia father - David Henry Hall
Australian History	1943 (Age 39) 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 40) 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 41) 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 42) 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 44) 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 45) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia elder brother - Ivan John Alexander Hall
Australian History	1949 (Age 45) 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 46) 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 47) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand
Australian History	1952 (Age 48) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.
Death of a mother	1954 (Age 50) Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia mother - Isabella McKenzie
Australian History	1954 (Age 50) 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 51) 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 52) 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 53) 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 58) Kew, Victoria, Australia younger sister - Claire Abigail Hall
Australian History	1962 (Age 58) 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
Death of a brother	1964 (Age 60) Victoria, Australia elder brother - Allan David Mckenzie Hall
Australian History	1964 (Age 60) 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 of a brother	4 January 1965 (Age 61) Barham, New South Wales, Australia elder brother - Desmond Clyde Hall
Australian History	1965 (Age 61) Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland
Australian History	1966 (Age 62) Note: The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted; Note: Menzies retires as Australia's longest-serving Prime Minister and is succeeded by Harold Holt.
Australian History	14 February 1966 (Age 62) Note: Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound.
Australian History	1967 (Age 63) Note: Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people; Note: Prime Minister Holt drowns and is succeeded by John Gorton; Note: The constitution is changed to allow Aboriginal Australians to be included in the population count and for the federal government to legislate for them; Sydney is rocked by a series of brutal underworld killings; Note: Talkback radio is introduced; Note: British comedian Tony Hancock commits suicide in Sydney; Note: Gough Whitlam becomes leader of the Labor Party; Note: Ronald Ryan becomes the last person legally executed in Australia.
Cremated	Fawkner Crematorium 6 March 1968 (Age 64) Fawkner, Victoria, Australia
Australian History	1968 (on the date of death) Note: Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney;
Death	1968 (Age 64) Victoria, Australia

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father	David Henry Hall Birth 18 September 1865 38 33 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 15 January 1943 (Age 77) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Loading...
23 months mother	Isabella McKenzie Birth 9 August 1867 Two Mile Hill, Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1954 (Age 86) Ivanhoe, Victoria, Australia Loading...
	Marriage: 1889 — Victoria, Australia
1 year #1 elder brother	Ivan John Alexander Hall Birth 1890 24 22 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1949 (Age 59) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Loading...
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...
3 years #3 elder brother	Allan David Mckenzie Hall Birth 1895 29 27 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1964 (Age 69) Victoria, Australia Loading...
4 years #4 elder brother	Stuart Norman Hall Birth 1899 33 31 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1972 (Age 73) Bendigo, Victoria, Australia Loading...
5 years #5 herself	Vera May Hall Birth 1904 38 36 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death 1968 (Age 64) Victoria, Australia Loading...
2 years #6 younger brother	Eric Hall Birth 1906 40 38 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
2 years #7 younger sister	Claire Abigail Hall Birth 1908 42 40 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Death 1962 (Age 54) Kew, Victoria, Australia Loading...

Family with Fred Johnson - View family

husband	Fred Johnson Death yes Loading...
herself	Vera May Hall Birth 1904 38 36 Tatura, Victoria, Australia Death 1968 (Age 64) Victoria, Australia Loading...
	Marriage: yes

Vera May Hall has 40 first cousins recorded

Father's family (40)

Parents George Andrew Crozier + Eliza Jane Hall

1 Mary Ann Crozier 1878–1959

2 Margaret Jane Crozier 1880–1973

3 John Thomas Crozier 1882–?

4 George Andrew Crozier 1884–1955

5 Isabella "Maud" Crozier 1886–1958

6 Henry Richard Crozier 1888–1943

7 Martha May Crozier 1890–1961

8 Ruby Rachael Crozier 1892–1974

9 Robert William Crozier 1895–1934

10 Albert Ernest Alexander Crozier 1896–1911

Parents George Walter Adams + Mary Ann Hall

1 Elizabeth Adams 1879–?

2 John Henry Adams 1880–1956

3 George Walter Adams 1882–1966

4 Mary Maud Adams 1885–?

5 Horace David Adams 1888–1962

6 Isabella Florence Adams 1891–1970

Parents John James Hall + Emily Caroline Randall

1 John Thomas Randall Hall 1889–1950

2 Marion Jane (Tis) Hall 1890–1972

3 Eveline Hall 1891–1893

4 Lillian Hall 1893–1960

5 Emily Mcgilvray Hall 1895–1969

Parents Robert William Hall + Martha Martin

1 John Richard Cecil Hall 1897–1972

2 Robert William Harold Hall 1899–1978

3 Mary Alma Myrtle Hall 1901–?

4 George Leonard Ray Hall 1904–1985

5 Rupert Henry Corbett Hall 1906–?

6 Lionel Lindsay Marshall Hall 1908–?

7 Verna Isabella May Hall 1910–?

8 Bertha Maisie Rowe Hall ?–?

Parents Alexander Hall + Dorothy Murray McKenzie

1 Dororthy Mary Hall 1898–1946

2 Isabella May Hall 1899–1978

3 John Alexander Baden Powell Hall 1900–1976

4 George Hall 1902–?

5 Melba Elizabeth Hall 1903–1962

6 Hugh Rodney Hall 1907–?

Parents Henry Brice Hall + Eleanor Mary Martin

1 Cyril Manfred Hall 1899–?

2 Jack Hall ?–?

3 Elizabeth Mary May Hall 1903–1903

4 John Ephriam Hall 1905–?

5 Hazel Hart Hall 1907–?

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Birth	Noted on Death Record Parents Joseph Jordan & Jane Jenkins (Grandparents)
Australian History	A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital
Australian History	Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Australian History	Dorothea Mackellar publishes My Country
Australian History	The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History	Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History	The Royal Australian Navy is founded
Australian History	Australia sends women to the Olympic Games for the first time
Australian History	Blaxland, Lawson and Wentworth cross the Blue Mountains.
Australian History	The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History	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	(25 APRIL)Australian soldiers land at Anzac Cove on the Gallipoli Peninsula in Turkey on 25 April.
Australian History	Hotels are forced to close at 6 p.m., leading to the beginning of the 'six o'clock swill'
Australian History	Second referendum on conscription is rejected. Transcontinental railway linking Adelaide to Perth is completed.
Australian History	(08 AUG) Battle of Amiens
Australian History	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	The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History	Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History	The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History	Vegemite is first produced
Australian History	The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History	The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History	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	Western Australia celebrates its centenary
Australian History	Batsman Don Bradman scores a record 452 not out in one cricket innings
Australian History	Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History	The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens
Australian History	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	The last Thylacine dies
Australian History	The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History	Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History	(April) Prime Minister Lyons dies in office and is replaced by Robert Menzies and the first Menzies Government
Australian History	A team of scientists, under Howard Florey, develops penicillin
Australian History	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.
Australian History	Feb, Fall of Singapore. 15,000 Australians become Prisoners of War of the Japanese
Australian History	Australia wins its first Oscar, with cinematographer Damien Parer honoured for Kokoda Front Line! documentary.
Australian History	Cowra breakout, mass escape of Japanese prisoners of war occurs in NSW.
Australian History	the Liberal Party of Australia is established with Robert Menzies as its first leader.
Australian History	Minister for Immigration Arthur Calwell introduces the major post-war immigration scheme
Australian History	Minister for External Affairs, Dr. H.V. Evatt is elected President of the United Nations General Assembly.
Australian History	Construction of the Snowy Mountains Hydro-Electric Scheme begins
Australian History	1950-53 - Australian troops are sent to the Korean War to assist South Korea.
Australian History	Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand
Australian History	First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.
Australian History	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	Democratic Labor Party splits from Australian Labor Party over concerns of Communist influence in the labour movement
Australian History	Television in Australia is launched.
Australian History	The song 'Wild One' makes Johnny O'Keefe the first Australian rock'n'roller to reach the national charts.
Australian History	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.
Australian History	The Beatles tour Australia;
Australian History	Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland
Australian History	The ban on the employment of married women in the Commonwealth Public Service is lifted;
Australian History	Decimalisation; on 14 February the Australian currency is changed to dollars and cents, with the Australian Dollar replacing the Australian pound.
Australian History	Large areas of Hobart and south-eastern Tasmania are devastated by bushfires on 7 February that kill 62 people;
Australian History	Australia signs the nuclear non-proliferation treaty; Aboriginal boxing champion Lionel Rose defeats Masahiko 'Fighting' Harada in Japan to become the world bantamweight champion; Australia's first liver transplant operation is performed in Sydney;

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