brigades, CLXVI (166th) and CLXVII (167th) Howitzer Brigade, the 126th Heavy Battery of the Royal Garrison Artillery, and the Divisional Ammunition Column (a total of 17 batteries) for the 33rd Division composed of Pals Battalions such as the Public Schools Battalions and the Sportsmen's Battalions. Hall himself was the first commanding officer of CLVI Bde. All the men came from Camberwell and Dulwich, and the units were complete by 1 June. 33rd (Camberwell) Divisional Artillery embarked at Southampton for France on 12–13 December 1915 and fought on the Western Front for the rest of the war. As the units he had raised began to move into the line, Lt-Col Hall handed over command of CLVI Bde to a permanent officer and returned to Parliament. He was later awarded a Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and knighted (KBE) in the 1918 New Year Honours for his efforts. After the war he was appointed (on 23 May 1923) Honorary Colonel of 53rd (City of London) Anti-Aircraft Brigade, Royal Artillery, a new Territorial Army unit that included a battery recruited from Lloyd's of London. Family life Hall married in Annie Ellen, daughter of Dr Henry Hall of Plaistow, on 16 April 1892, and they had four children: Frederick Henry Hall (born 11 April 1899, died 22 June 1949), who succeeded to the baronetcy. Cecil Mortimer Hall (born 8 June 1908) Mildred Constance, who married firstly Horace Owen Whelan and secondly Henry Alexander Hewat Annie Elsie, who married Maurice Henry Drake Sir Frederick Hall was created a baronet as Sir Frederick Hall of Grafham, Surrey on 5 March 1923. Lady Hall died on 19 February 1929. Sir Frederick died at Hyde Park Gardens on 28 April 1932 and was buried at West Norwood Cemetery. Notes References Obituary, The Times, 29 April 1932 Maj A.F. Becke,History of the Great War: Order of Battle of Divisions, Part 3b: New Army Divisions (30–41) and 63rd (R.N.) Division, London: HM Stationery Office, 1939/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2007, . Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 100th Edn, London, 1953. Maj J. Macartney-Filgate, History of the 33rd Divisional Artillery in the War 1914–1918, Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2005, . Lt-Col Graham Seton-Hutchinson, The Thirty-Third Division in France and Flanders, 1915–1919, London: Waterlow & Sons 1921/Uckfield: Naval & Military Press, 2004, . Instructions Issued by The War Office During July, 1915, London: HM Stationery Office. External links Dulwich Society 1864 births