HALSALL Donald Court

  • First Name(s):
    Donald 
    Court 
  • Surname:
    HALSALL
  • Service Number:
    Unknown
  • Rank:

    Second Lieutenant

  • Conflict:
    WW1
  • Service:
    Army
  • Army Sector:
    Infantry
  • Regiment:
    Lancashire Fusiliers
  • Battalion:
    1st/2nd Battalion
  • Unit:
    attached 3rd/5th Battalion
  • Former Units:
    None
  • Date of Death:
    9th October 1917
  • Age At Death:
    19
  • Cause of Death:
    Killed in action
  • Place of Death:
    Unknown
  • Place of Burial:
    Commemorated on Tyne Cot Memorial, Belgium, Panel 54 to 60 and 163A.
  • Place of Birth:
    Unknown
  • Home Town:
    Unknown
  • Casualty's Relatives:

    Son of Thomas and Amy Halsall, 55 Liverpool Rd., Birkdale, Southport

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HALSALL Donald Court Is Named On These Memorials

Bromsgrove School WW1 Memorial

Notes About The Memorial(s) Listed Above

Additional information on the memorial: Second-Lieut.

Further Information About HALSALL Donald Court

Educated at Bromsgrove School, Worcestershire.  Inns of Court O.T.C.

Donald Halsall was born in 1898.  He attended Bromsgrove School from 1910 to 1916 where he was a School Monitor and a Corporal in the OTC.  In December 1916 Halsall joined the Inns of Court OTC and obtained his commission on 1st August 1917.  He had been barely 14 days in France when he was killed in the hard fighting – not long enough to feel the strain, but long enough to show his worth.  One of the youngest O.B’s to fall.

Source: Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by Philip Bowen and Bromsgrove School at War 1914-19 by David Cross.

Donald Halsall has no known grave, the photograph available shows his name on Tyne Cot Memorial.

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