Name
Norman Joseph Delany
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
19/09/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Lieutenant
184
Australian Field Artillery
2nd Bde.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
HANCOURT BRITISH CEMETERY
C. 1.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Digswell House Australian Hospital Memorial, St John's Church, Digswell
Pre War
Norman Joseph Delany was born in Paddington, New South Wales, Australia, the son of Joseph William and Charlotte Ellen Delany. They lived at the Corner of Warwick and Belmore Roads, Penshurst, New South Wales, where he worked as a Clerk.
His parents later lived at 88 The Avenue, Hurstville, New South Wales.
Wartime Service
He enlisted on 24 August 1914 and served as a Corporal in the Field Artillery Brigade 1, Battery 2.
He was later commissioned as Lieutenant with the 1st Field Artillery Brigade. and was mentioned in despatches in 1917.
He died of wounds on 19 September 1918, aged 24.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
aif.adfa.edu.au
