Seeking the light

Ernest Hall reflects on his spiritual journey

by Ernest Hall 2nd May 2014

I was brought up as a ‘High Church’ Anglican. I progressed from Sunday school to choir boy and on to being a ‘server at the altar’. Early in 1939 I volunteered for the territorial army.  I had been eighteen for just four months when Britain declared war on Germany on 3 September 1939 and I was called up for full-time army service. Throughout my army service and during the three years that I was a prisoner of war (PoW) I wore a small crucifix attached to the identity discs that every soldier wears round his neck.