Ernest Hall (footballer)

Ernest Hall (6 August 1916 – 7 July 1944) was a footballer who played in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion and Newcastle United.

Personal life
Hall served as a pilot officer in the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve during the Second World War, being promoted to that rank from sergeant on 28 February 1944. On 7 July 1944, he was killed in action piloting Vickers Wellington LP210 when the bomber was shot down during a bombing raid of Feuersbrunn aerodrome, near St. Pölten, Austria. Hall is buried at the Klagenfurt War Cemetery.

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