Ernest Hall (6 August 1916 – 7 July 1944) was a

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who played in

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for

Brighton & Hove Albion Brighton & Hove Albion Football Club (), commonly referred to simply as Brighton, is an English professional football club based in the city of Brighton and Hove. They compete in the Premier League, the top tier of the English football league ...

and

Newcastle United Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional football club, based in Newcastle upon Tyne, that plays in the Premier League – the top flight of English football. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End ...

Personal life

Hall served as a

pilot officer Pilot officer (Plt Off officially in the RAF; in the RAAF and RNZAF; formerly P/O in all services, and still often used in the RAF) is the lowest commissioned rank in the Royal Air Force and the air forces of many other Commonwealth countri ...

in the

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve The Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve (RAFVR) was established in 1936 to support the preparedness of the U.K. Royal Air Force in the event of another war. The Air Ministry intended it to form a supplement to the Royal Auxiliary Air Force (RAuxAF ...

during the

Second World War World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposin ...

, being promoted to that rank from

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on 28 February 1944. On 7 July 1944, he was killed in action piloting

Vickers Wellington The Vickers Wellington was a British twin-engined, long-range medium bomber. It was designed during the mid-1930s at Brooklands in Weybridge, Surrey. Led by Vickers-Armstrongs' chief designer Rex Pierson; a key feature of the aircraft is its g ...

'' LP210'' when the bomber was shot down during a bombing raid of Feuersbrunn aerodrome, near

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. Hall is buried at the

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War Cemetery.

Career statistics

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References

English men's footballers Stoke City F.C. players Newcastle United F.C. players Brighton & Hove Albion F.C. players English Football League players 1916 births 1944 deaths Men's association football central defenders Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve personnel of World War II Royal Air Force personnel killed in World War II Royal Air Force officers British World War II bomber pilots Aviators killed by being shot down Royal Air Force pilots of World War II Sportspeople from the Metropolitan Borough of Gateshead Footballers from Tyne and Wear {{England-footy-defender-1910s-stub Military personnel from Tyne and Wear