Chapter XXII 



The Rev, H. Hall with the 29th Division — A Memorial — Sir Ian Hamilton 

 Unveils it — Starting a Rifle Club — Some Anonymous Letters — Wliat they 

 Said — Colonel Carrington Smith — Confirmation Classes in War-time — Heroic 

 Middies — A Fateful Sunday — Breakfast at 5.30 a.m. — A Cheery Party — 

 What Happened to Them — A Commander Dies in Mr. Hall's Arms — A Grue- 

 some Sight — Four Days' and Four Nights' Hard Work — Searching for the 

 Brigade Major — Turkish Snipers Busy — Agility of Mr, Hall — The Rev. 

 Mazzini Tron — With the Bush Brotherhood — At Suvla Bay — Wins D.S.O. 

 and Bar — The Rev. W. R. F. Addison in Canadian Lumber-Camp — In 

 Mesopotamia — Wins Victoria Cross — His Love of Nature — Addison Ancestors 

 — What a Little Bird told the Author — A Chaplain's Recompense. 



THE REV. H. HALL, who has reigned at Holy Trinity 

 Vicarage, Eltham, since 1907, when the Bishop of 

 Southwark sent him to that quiet old-world village, was 

 with the ever-to-be remembered 29th Division in Gallipoli, and 

 he is proud that his church now holds the memorial to all those 

 gallant men who fell during that heroic endeavour to do the 

 impossible. It was unveiled by General Sir Ian Hamilton, 

 on April 25, 1917. Each year a service is held in memory of 

 those who fought and fell in Gallipoli, 1915-16. 



Mr. Hall is a devotee at the shrine of athleticism and sport. 

 The first thing he did after becoming vicar of Holy Trinity was 

 to astonish the dreamy inhabitants by such an unheard-of 

 innovation as forming a rifle-club, and with the help of Sir John 

 Stevens, Sir Harry North, the European manager of the 

 Canadian -Pacific Railway, and other leading lights, it was 

 soon an accomplished fact. 



By the wish of that keen soldier. Colonel H. B. Tasker, Mr. 

 Hall became the Padre to the 2nd London R.F.A. (Territorial 

 Forces), and learnt the delights of summer camps — when the 

 floods are not out ! About this time he received a number of 

 anonymous letters from those brave persons who love to write 

 letters they are ashamed to sign with their names. The purport 

 of these letters was to ask what he meant by marching about 

 with troops and getting up rifle-clubs to teach men to shoot one 



