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Evening Post, Volume XCV, Issue 140, 13 June 1918, Page 8

Lieutenant A. Hall (killed in action in Palestine) was the only son of Mr. W. H. Hall, late of Drury, Auckland. He was born at Governor's Bay, Canterbury, and was educated at the Thames public school and High School. Having obtained his junior Civil Service certificate,- he entered the Post and Telegraph Department, and while there passed the senior Civil Service examination. Later Mr. Hall transferred to the Defence Department, and was chosen as private secretary to the Hon. F. M. B. Fisher, then Minister for Marine. • Immediately upon the outbreak of war Mr. Hall, then in his 23rd year, volunteered for service abroad with the Main Body in the Wellington Mounted Rifles. He was one of the first landing party of New Zealandcrs at Gallipoli, and afterwards sorved through the whole campaign there as sergeant. His division being urgently in need of signallers, he threw up big non-commissioned rank, and joined the signallers as a private. Subsequently he gained the rank of lieutenant, was mentioned several times in despatches, and was awarded the Military Cross for gallantry on the field.

The deed for which Lieutenant Kellaway, son of Mr. A. Kellaway, of Wellington South, won his Military Cross is thus officially described:—"Lieutenant George Thomas Kellaway, Engineers;— Before an attack, h« established communications for two brigades. During the attack he led a party forward and established communication with the brigade forward station. He displayed great energy and ability throughout, and set his party an excellent example under heavy fire."