CAPTAIN NORMAN HALL
5th BATTALION LANCASHIRE FUSILIERS
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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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.