John Richard Cecil Hall 1897

John Richard Cecil HallAge: 741897–1972

Name: John Richard Cecil Hall

Given names: John Richard Cecil

Surname: Hall

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Birth	5 December 1897 30 26 Undera, Victoria, Australia
Marriage of parents	View family 1897 Victoria, Australia father - Robert William Hall mother - Martha Martin
Occupation	Farmer Note: Farmed at Reefton, Taleeban, Griffith & Rankin Springs
Australian History	1897 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 27 days) 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	3 May 1899 (Age 16 months) Undera, Victoria, Australia younger brother - Robert William Harold Hall
Australian History	1899 (Age 12 months) 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 2) 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
Birth of a sister	1901 (Age 3) younger sister - Mary Alma Myrtle Hall
Australian History	1901 (Age 3) 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 4) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia paternal grandmother - Mary Corbett
Australian History	1902 (Age 4) 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 5) 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 brother	19 February 1904 (Age 6) Undera, Victoria, Australia younger brother - George Leonard Ray Hall
Australian History	1904 (Age 6) 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 8) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia younger brother - Rupert Henry Corbett Hall
Australian History	1906 (Age 8) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Birth of a brother	1908 (Age 10) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia younger brother - Lionel Lindsay Marshall Hall
Australian History	1908 (Age 10) 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 11) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Birth of a sister	1910 (Age 12) younger sister - Verna Isabella May Hall
Australian History	1910 (Age 12) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History	1911 (Age 13) 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 14) 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 15) 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 15) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History	1914 (Age 16) 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 17) 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
Military	WWI 1 June 1916 (Age 18) Note: Hall John Richard Cecil : SERN 6760 : POB VIC : POE Cootamundra NSW : NOK F Hall Robert William http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=3007707
Australian History	1916 (Age 18) 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 19) 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 20) 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 21) 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 22) Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History	1921 (Age 23) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History	1922 (Age 24) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History	1923 (Age 25) Note: Vegemite is first produced
Australian History	1926 (Age 28) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History	1927 (Age 29) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Marriage of a sister	Mary Alma Myrtle Hall - View family 1928 (Age 30) West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia brother-in-law - Sidney F Beaumont younger sister - Mary Alma Myrtle Hall
Australian History	1928 (Age 30) 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 31) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Death of a father	1930 (Age 32) West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia father - Robert William Hall
Australian History	1930 (Age 32) 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 33) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Australian History	1932 (Age 34) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Australian History	1933 (Age 35) 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 38) Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History	1937 (Age 39) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History	1938 (Age 40) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Death of a mother	1939 (Age 41) West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia mother - Martha Martin
Australian History	1939 (Age 41) 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 42) 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 43) 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.
Military	18 BATTALION VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS PART TIME DUTY Type: WW2 31 March 1942 (Age 44) Note: Service Record Name HALL, JOHN RICHARD CECIL Service Australian Army Service Number N381164 Date of Birth 5 Dec 1897 Place of Birth UNDERA, VIC Date of Enlistment 31 Mar 1942 Locality on Enlistment TALEEBAN Place of Enlistment WEETHALLE, NSW Next of Kin HALL, THELMA Date of Discharge 25 Sep 1945 Rank Private Posting at Discharge 18 BATTALION VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS PART TIME DUTY WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display Prisoner of War No
Australian History	1942 (Age 44) 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.
Australian History	1943 (Age 45) 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 46) 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 47) 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 48) 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 50) 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.
Australian History	1949 (Age 51) 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 52) 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 53) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand
Australian History	1952 (Age 54) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.
Australian History	1954 (Age 56) 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 57) 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 58) 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 59) 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.
Australian History	1962 (Age 64) 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 (Age 66) 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.
Australian History	1965 (Age 67) Note: Indigenous Australians gain right to vote in state of Queensland
Australian History	1966 (Age 68) 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 68) 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 69) 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.
Australian History	1968 (Age 70) 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;
Australian History	1969 (Age 71) Note: French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney; Note: Renowned author-artists Norman Lindsay and May Gibbs die; Note: The Australian production of the rock musical Hair premieres in Sydney; Note: Top pop groups The Easybeats and The Twilights break up; Tim Burstall directs2000 Weeks, the first all-Australian feature released since Charles Chauvel's Jedda in 1958
Australian History	1970 (Age 72) Note: More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War
Australian History	1971 (Age 73) Note: Neville Bonner becomes the first Aborigine to become an Australian Member of Parliament; Note: John Gorton resigns and is succeeded by William McMahon Note: The 1971 Springbok tour sparks protest all throughout Australia. Premier of Queensland Joh Bjelke-Petersen declares a state of emergency in QLD in response to escalating protest. Note: Daylight Saving is introduced to New South Wales, Victoria, Queensland, South Australia, and the Australian Capital Territory.
Australian History	1972 (Age 74) Note: The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rules that women doing the same job as men have the right to be paid the same wage. Note: Aboriginal Tent Embassy erected in response to the Coalition government's approval of exploration licences and mining tenements on reserves Note: The first Labor government since 1949 is elected under the leadership of Gough Whitlam Note: Australia recognizes the People's Republic of China Note: Queensland abandons Daylight Saving.
Death	1 May 1972 (Age 74) Griffith, New South Wales, Australia

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father	Robert William Hall Birth 26 October 1867 40 35 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1930 (Age 62) West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
3 years mother	Martha Martin Birth 1871 Clunes, Victoria, Australia Death 1939 (Age 68) West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
	Marriage: 1897 — Victoria, Australia
11 months #1 himself	John Richard Cecil Hall Birth 5 December 1897 30 26 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 1 May 1972 (Age 74) Griffith, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
17 months #2 younger brother	Robert William Harold Hall Birth 3 May 1899 31 28 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 28 November 1978 (Age 79) West Wyalong, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
20 months #3 younger sister	Mary Alma Myrtle Hall Birth 1901 33 30 Death yes Loading...
3 years #4 younger brother	George Leonard Ray Hall Birth 19 February 1904 36 33 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 29 December 1985 (Age 81) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia Loading...
22 months #5 younger brother	Rupert Henry Corbett Hall Birth 1906 38 35 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
2 years #6 younger brother	Lionel Lindsay Marshall Hall Birth 1908 40 37 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
2 years #7 younger sister	Verna Isabella May Hall Birth 1910 42 39 Death yes Loading...
#8 sister	Bertha Maisie Rowe Hall Loading...

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himself	John Richard Cecil Hall Birth 5 December 1897 30 26 Undera, Victoria, Australia Death 1 May 1972 (Age 74) Griffith, New South Wales, Australia Loading...
8 years wife	Thelma Amelia Williams Birth 2 August 1905 New South Wales, Australia Death yes Loading...
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John Richard Cecil Hall has 39 first cousins recorded

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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 David Henry Hall + Isabella McKenzie

1 Ivan John Alexander Hall 1890–1949

2 Desmond Clyde Hall 1892–1965

3 Allan David Mckenzie Hall 1895–1964

4 Stuart Norman Hall 1899–1972

5 Vera May Hall 1904–1968

6 Eric Hall 1906–?

7 Claire Abigail Hall 1908–1962

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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Occupation	Farmed at Reefton, Taleeban, Griffith & Rankin Springs
Australian History	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.
Australian History	The Convention agrees on a final draft to be put to the people.
Australian History	The decision is made to site the national capital in New South Wales, but not within 100 miles of Sydney.
Australian History	Several delegates visit London to resist proposed changes to the agreed-upon constitution.
Australian History	(01 Jan) Australia becomes a federation on 1 January. Edmund Barton becomes Prime Minister; the 7th Earl of Hopetoun becomes Governor-General
Australian History	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.
Australian History	The High Court of Australia is established with Samuel Griffith as the first Chief Justice.
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.
Military	Hall John Richard Cecil : SERN 6760 : POB VIC : POE Cootamundra NSW : NOK F Hall Robert William http://recordsearch.naa.gov.au/NameSearch/Interface/ItemDetail.aspx?Barcode=3007707
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.
Military	Service Record Name HALL, JOHN RICHARD CECIL Service Australian Army Service Number N381164 Date of Birth 5 Dec 1897 Place of Birth UNDERA, VIC Date of Enlistment 31 Mar 1942 Locality on Enlistment TALEEBAN Place of Enlistment WEETHALLE, NSW Next of Kin HALL, THELMA Date of Discharge 25 Sep 1945 Rank Private Posting at Discharge 18 BATTALION VOLUNTEER DEFENCE CORPS PART TIME DUTY WW2 Honours and Gallantry None for display Prisoner of War No
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;
Australian History	French conceptual artist Christo 'wraps' Little Bay in Sydney;
Australian History	More than 200,000 people participate in the largest demonstrations in Australian history, against the Vietnam War
Australian History	Neville Bonner becomes the first Aborigine to become an Australian Member of Parliament;
Australian History	The Commonwealth Conciliation and Arbitration Commission rules that women doing the same job as men have the right to be paid the same wage.

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