T.S. SOUTHAMPTON
ALFRED HALL
By Ron Hall
Alfred Hall spent five years aboard T.S. Southampton from1907 to 1912.
My father, Alfed was helping to deliver pies etc, in the Sculcoates area of Hull, where he lived.
He was sentenced to 5 years aboard the Training Ship Southampton for stealing two pies/sausage rolls from the pieman at the age of 12.
On the Southampton he learned to play the clarinet in the ships band, to make his own clothes and was well educated.
He also learned all the arts of combat, plus sail
training, and at 17 he joined the East Yorkshires in the first war and afterwards
met and Married my Mother and started his own haulage business , sold firelogs
and had his own sawmill, he joined the RAF in the second war and died in 1947
due to a knock on the head he recieved in the RAF.
Alfred Hall is on the front row behind the TS
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