Flight Lt NM Hall
Noel Mudie Hall
- Rank
- Flight Lt
- Honours
- AFC
- Squadron
- No 257 Squadron
- School
- Hilton College
- Born
- 1915
- Fate
- Did not survive the war, 8 August 1940
- In the book
- Pages 31, 51
From the book
Links of Long Standing
1930’s Cranwell graduates included HR Goodman, EMC Guest, JER Hayter, DG Heaton-Nicholls, T de T Macdonald, H Mundy, TS Rivett-Carnac, BP Young and HNG Wheeler. Most, including British born NM Hall and MA Aylmer were educated at Bishops, St Johns College, Michaelhouse, Hilton College or St Andrews.
Links of Long Standing
Former Hilton College pupil Derek Heaton- Nicholls was a very early “Prisoner of War”, Noel Mudie Hall another former pupil was killed during the “Battle of Britain”, Herbert Mundy lost his life in a February 1941 flying training accident, Bishops educated Flight Lt Guest DFC and Squadron Leader JER Hayter DFC were shot down in separate incidents on October 4th 1943. Guest, flying a Coastal Command Liberator and Hayter a No 83 Squadron Lancaster. Wing Commander Herbert Goodman, Hall’s Hilton College contemporary shot down in a No 103 Squadron Lancaster in May 1944, was commanding the squadron at the time.
Against Unfavourable Odds
Hilton College educated Flight Lt Noel Mudie Hall AFC, a No 257 Squadron Hurricane pilot, also lost his life to Me 109’s over the Channel that day 6. The son of a Royal Navy Admiral, he was born in England in 1915 and graduated from RAF Cranwell in 1935, a year before his Hilton College contemporary Herbert Goodman.