When it became known yesterday that Lieut. Norman Hall, of Orepuki, was leaving for Trentham by the second express the executive of the Patriotic Committee decided, on behalf of the people of Southland, to present him with a pair of binoculars. Mr W. D. Hunt made the presentation and the recipient, who was unmistakably pleased and surprised, expressed his grateful acknowledgment. Lieut. Hall is to be attached to the Sixth (Southland) Regiment, Sixth Reinforcements. -Southland Times, 13/3/1915.
PERSONAL NOTES.
Lieutenant Norman Hall, who was killed in action in France, was a son of Mr J. A. Hall, of Bay road, Invercargill, and was born at Nightcaps in 1892. As a boy he attended the Public School, and from there, passed his Junior Civil Service examination. Deciding to follow the profession of a school teacher, he started as pupil teacher in the Middle School, Invercargill. About five years ago he was appointed to the position of first assistant at the Orepuki School, and he remained in that position until his enlistment with the Sixth Reinforcements. Lieutenant Hall was one of the most popular officers in the Otago Infantry Brigade. -Press, 21/6/1916.
Norman Hall died from a head wound. The Otago Regiment had not long taken up positions in the line in France and the intensity of trench warfare was different to their experience in Gallipoli. It is possible that he was killed by a German sniper.
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