Melba Elizabeth Hall 1903

Melba Elizabeth HallAge: 591903–1962

Name: Melba Elizabeth Hall

Given names: Melba Elizabeth

Surname: Hall

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Birth	1903 33 38 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia
Marriage	Jim Baker - View family
Australian History	1903 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
Australian History	1904 (Age 12 months) Note: A site at Dalgety, New South Wales chosen for the new national capital Note: Chris Watson forms the first federal Labor (minority) government
Australian History	1906 (Age 3) Note: Australia takes control of south-eastern New Guinea
Birth of a brother	1907 (Age 4) Wyuna, Victoria, Australia younger brother - Hugh Rodney Hall
Australian History	1908 (Age 5) 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 6) Note: The first powered aeroplane flight in Australia is made.
Australian History	1910 (Age 7) Note: Andrew Fisher forms the first federal majority Labor government.
Australian History	1911 (Age 8) 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 9) 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 10) 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 10) Note: The foundation stone for the city of Canberra is put in place
Australian History	1914 (Age 11) 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 12) 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 13) 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 14) 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 15) 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 16) 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 17) Note: The airline Qantas is founded
Australian History	1921 (Age 18) Note: Edith Cowan becomes the first woman elected to an Australian parliament
Australian History	1922 (Age 19) Note: The Smith Family charity is founded in Sydney
Australian History	1923 (Age 20) Note: Vegemite is first produced
Australian History	1926 (Age 23) Note: The first Miss Australia contest is held
Australian History	1927 (Age 24) Note: The tenth parliament is formally opened in Canberra, finalising the move to the new capital
Australian History	1928 (Age 25) 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 26) Note: Western Australia celebrates its centenary Note: Labor returns to office under James Scullin. The Great Depression hits Australia.
Australian History	1930 (Age 27) 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 28) Note: Sir Douglas Mawson charts 4,000 miles of Antarctic coastline and claims 42% of the icy mass for Australia
Death of a mother	1932 (Age 29) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia mother - Dorothy Murray McKenzie
Australian History	1932 (Age 29) Note: The Sydney Harbour Bridge opens Note: The Labor government falls and Joseph Lyons becomes Prime Minister
Death of a father	11 March 1933 (Age 30) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia father - Alexander Hall
Australian History	1933 (Age 30) 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 33) Note: The last Thylacine dies
Australian History	1937 (Age 34) Note: The radio series Dad and Dave begins
Australian History	1938 (Age 35) Note: Sydney hosts the Empire Games, the forerunner to the Commonwealth Games
Australian History	1939 (Age 36) 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 37) 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 38) 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 39) 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 40) 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 41) 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 42) 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
Death of a sister	1946 (Age 43) Parkville, Victoria, Australia elder sister - Dororthy Mary Hall
Burial of a sister	30 September 1946 (Age 43) Fawkner, Victoria, Australia elder sister - Dororthy Mary Hall
Australian History	1946 (Age 43) 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 45) 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 46) 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 47) 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 48) Note: Australia signs the ANZUS treaty with the United States and New Zealand
Australian History	1952 (Age 49) Note: First nuclear test conducted in Australian territory by the United Kingdom off the coast of Western Australia.
Australian History	1954 (Age 51) 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 52) 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 53) 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 54) 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 (on the date of death) 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	1962 (Age 59) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia

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father	Alexander Hall Birth 18 September 1869 42 37 Ararat, Victoria, Australia Death 11 March 1933 (Age 63) Age: 65 Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Loading...
-5 years mother	Dorothy Murray McKenzie Birth 1865 Echuca, Victoria, Australia Death 1932 (Age 67) Mooroopna, Victoria, Australia Loading...
	Marriage: 1895 — Victoria, Australia
3 years #1 elder sister	Dororthy Mary Hall Birth 1898 28 33 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1946 (Age 48) Parkville, Victoria, Australia Loading...
1 year #2 elder sister	Isabella May Hall Birth 1899 29 34 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1978 (Age 79) Tallangatta, Victoria, Australia Loading...
1 year #3 elder brother	John Alexander Baden Powell Hall Birth 1900 30 35 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1976 (Age 76) Melbourne, Victoria, Australia Loading...
2 years #4 elder brother	George Hall Birth 1902 32 37 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...
1 year #5 herself	Melba Elizabeth Hall Birth 1903 33 38 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1962 (Age 59) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia Loading...
4 years #6 younger brother	Hugh Rodney Hall Birth 1907 37 42 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death yes Loading...

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husband	Jim Baker Death yes Loading...
herself	Melba Elizabeth Hall Birth 1903 33 38 Wyuna, Victoria, Australia Death 1962 (Age 59) Shepparton, Victoria, Australia Loading...
	Marriage: yes

Melba Elizabeth Hall has 41 first cousins recorded

Father's family (41)

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 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 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	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.
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.

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