Arthur Edmund Hall

A Seaman with H.M. Trawler Brock. Arthur died on 19th of August 1940 at the age of 29. 

Arthur was born at Lowestoft on 16 July 1911, a son of Arthur Reginald and Ada Annie Hall. He was baptised at Saint Margaret's Church, Lowestoft, on 3 August 1911 and his family lived at 22 Oxford Road. In 1921 his family lived at 90 Cambridge Road, Lowestoft, and this was still their home in 1939.

During World War Two Arthur served with the mine-sweeping trawler Brock. In 19 August 1940 several members of the Brock's crew, along with members of the crew of the mine-sweeping trawler Burke, were involved in an Army vs. Navy football match at the Connaught Barracks Sports Ground, near Dover Castle. A lone German aircraft dropped ten bombs in the Castle area killing four men from the Brock, including Arthur, and one member of the Brock's crew died of wounds the next day. In total thirteen men died as a result of the attack.

See: Air Raid on Dover - Monday 19th August 1940 (sussexhistoryforum.co.uk)