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Eric Lindow Hall was born in King’s Norton in Worcestershire on 25 August 1912, the son of Florence (née Brockbank) and Austin Hall, a machinist. He was educated at Banbury County School, and entered Worcester College on 9 October 1931. He achieved 1st class honours in Modern History in 1934.
Eric Hall married Elizabeth O’Neill in 1936, and worked as a secondary school master at Wayland in Norfolk. He enlisted in the RAFVR where he rose to the rank of Sergeant before being commissioned as a Pilot Officer on 29 November 1941. Eric Hall was an observer in training on an aircraft which took off from RAF Pamanzi in Madagascar on 8 September 1942, for an anti-submarine patrol to protect a naval convoy. The plane took off normally but crashed into the sea shortly afterwards, killing its crew including Flying Officer Eric Hall. He was 30 years old.
Eric Hall is buried at Diego Suarez War Cemetery on Madagascar. He is commemorated on the war memorials at Wykham Park Academy (formerly Banbury County School), and Worcester College, Oxford.