| Surname: | Hall |
| Initials: | F E |
| Rank: | Lance Corporal |
| Army Number: | P/4944 |
| Notes: | MFP. Awarded the Victory and War Medals. First served abroad (1) France, 20/1/1917. Info from Pension Index Card:- Hall, Frank E, MFP, No. 4944, 24/10/1919, SFJ.4416, address:- 73, P? Avenue, Reading. Stamp:- Ad 25/11/1919at 5/6 from 25/10/1919 to 27/4/1920, Chelsea No. 3154, received 26/11/1919. Frank Ernest Hall. Chelmsford Chronicle, 10/2/1928. Goal For Ex Policeman, Till Robbed at Saffron Walden. At Saffron on Saturday Frank Ernest Hall, 40, former police constable, was sentenced to three months hard labour for stealing money from the till of a public-house in Saffron Walden. Police Sergeant Young said he saw hall in a public house and took him to the Police station on suspicion. When searched he produced two paper bags containing 10s and 18s. Hall, who pleaded guilty, put in a written statement which he said drink was the cause of his trouble, given a chance he would promise to leave the drink alone. Supt. Hyde said the prisoner was formerly in the Essex Constabulary and afterwards in the GWR police as a detective. While with the GWR he broke his wrist and left the service. He joined the Army and after being demobilised from the Military Foot Police he lacked moral restraint, and his associations with women were discreditable. He as a married man living apart from his wife. he was bound over at the Essex Quarter Sessions for Housebreaking and in 1926 was sentenced to two months hard labour for theft of a lady's bicycle. For some months he was employed at Saffron Walden by a firm of builders, and his conduct had been satisfactory. Hall made further appeal for mercy, and said that when he was in the police Force he came home one morning after night duty and found that his wife had gone away with another man. That was the beginning of his trouble. The Chairman, in sentencing Hall, said he hoped this would teach him a lesson, and that on his release he would leave the drink alone. |