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Time Line

TIME LINE OF NORMAN HALL'S WAR SERVICE 1914-1919

03.09.14 Joined up as a Private with the 3rd City Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment

12.09.14 Corporal, No 7 Section, “B” Platoon, 3rd City Battalion King’s Liverpool Regiment

14.10.14 Gazetted 2nd Lieutenant, 5th Reserve Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (from 07.10.14)

08.11.14 Appointed OC “B” Company of the 5th Reserve Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers

07.01.15 Gazetted Lieutenant, 5th Reserve Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers (from 23.12.14)

19.04.15 Appointed Signalling Officer to the 2/5th Lancashire Fusiliers

03.05.15 Landed in France for the first time

23.09.15 Appointed 2nd in Command of “Z” Company of the 2/5th Lancashire Fusiliers

07.07.16 Gazetted Temporary Captain, 2/5th Lancashire Fusiliers (from 08.05.16)

09.09.16 Wounded at Ginchy

11.01.17 Appointed OC “V” Company, 5th Reserve Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, Ripon

14.06.17 Returned to France

22.06.17Joined the 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers, 2nd in Command of “C” Company

27.06.17 Reverted to substantive rank of 2nd Lieutenant in Battalion Orders

29.06.17 Appointed Acting Rail Transport Officer

05.08.17 Gazetted Captain, Lancashire Fusiliers, Territorial Force (from 08.10.16)

04.09.17 Appointed Acting Quartermaster of the 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers

22.10.17 Appointed OC of “B” Company of the 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers

23.11.17 Appointed Acting Adjutant of the 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers

10.12.17 Reverted to OC of “B” Company of the 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers

03.01.18 Appointed Acting Adjutant again (also briefly CO Battalion and Acting MO)

21.02.18 Reverted to OC of “B” Company of the 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers

08.04.18 Appointed Acting Adjutant of the 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers

10.05.18 Admitted to hospital with Trench Fever

09.07.18 Returned to 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers, again as Acting Adjutant

14.07.18 Acting Intelligence Officer of the 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers

22.07.18 Acting Signalling Officer of the 1/5th Lancashire Fusiliers

29.07.18 Injured in a riding accident

13.09.18 Duty Officer at Brighton Hydro, Blackpool, subsequently Adjutant

09.01.19 Posted to 5th Battalion, Lancashire Fusiliers, Withernsea

19.01.19 Demobilised

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Background

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Enlistment

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Training

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The Diary

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Sources

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Illustrations

Some of Norman’s military buttons and badges, to include two of his OTC buttons, his Lancashire Fusilier cap badge, a War Service 1915 badge, and a button with the insignia “XX”, denoting the Twentieth Foot, the precursors of the Lancashire Fusiliers; the sphinx emblem and the word “Egypt” which feature on the Lancashire Fusilier items originated from the Regiment’s distinguished service in Egypt.

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