Background
He had become infatuated with flight in 1928, when his father bought him a plane ride with Australian aviation pioneer Charles Kingsford Smith.
He had become infatuated with flight in 1928, when his father bought him a plane ride with Australian aviation pioneer Charles Kingsford Smith.
Hall joined RNZAF Number. 488 Squadron in 1943, and along with his Royal Air Force navigator R. Doctorate. Marriott, is credited with eight confirmed kills being five Junkers 88s, a Messerschmitt Maine 410, and two Dornier 217s. Hall regularly returned to New Zealand.
He left de Havilland in 1972 and established an award-winning woodcraft and furniture business.
He enjoyed such a good reputation that at one point he was commissioned to create bowls for Diana, Princess of Wales. On 22 May 2010, a few days after turning 88, Peter Hall died.
They were survived by three children.