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Cyril Harry Hallett was born in Oxford on 7 October 1919, the son of Alice (née Brown) and Harry Hallett, a goods carman for a railway company. He was employed by Worcester College as the ‘Senior Common Room boy’.
Cyril Hallett married Vera Cox in Oxford in 1940. They had a daughter, Linda, born in 1941, and lived in Upper Wolvercote. He served as a Private in the 7th Battalion Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, and landed on the beaches of Salerno, Italy on 9 September 1943. By 11 September they were in the front line and were under shell and mortar fire throughout the day. Private Cyril Hallett was killed in action during the following day, 12 September 1943. He was 23 years old.
Cyril Hallett is buried at Salerno War Cemetery, Italy, and commemorated on the war memorial at Worcester College, Oxford.