| Ernest Hall | |
| Fullname: | Ernest Hall |
| Birth Date: | 1916 8, df=y |
| Birth Place: | Crawcrook, England |
| Death Place: | St. Pölten, Austria |
| Position: | Centre half |
| Height: | 5 ft 10+1/2 in[1] |
| Years1: | 1933–1935 |
| Clubs1: | West Wylam Colliery |
| Years2: | 1935–1936 |
| Clubs2: | Newcastle United |
| Caps2: | 2 |
| Goals2: | 0 |
| Years3: | 1937–1938 |
| Caps3: | 3 |
| Goals3: | 0 |
| Years4: | 1938–1939 |
| Clubs4: | Stoke City |
| Caps4: | 0 |
| Goals4: | 0 |
| Totalcaps: | 5 |
| Totalgoals: | 0 |
Ernest Hall (6 August 1916 – 7 July 1944) was a footballer who played in the Football League for Brighton & Hove Albion and Newcastle United.[2]
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.[3] Hall is buried at the Klagenfurt War Cemetery.
Source:
| Club | Season | League | FA Cup | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Newcastle United | 1935–36 | Second Division | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | |
| Brighton & Hove Albion | 1937–38 | Third Division South | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |
| Stoke City | 1938–39 | First Division | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| Career total | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6 | 0 | |||