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Pte. Cecil William James Bell
British Army Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Dublin
(d.15th Apr 1917)
Cecil Bell was the son of Andrew and Mary Bell, of 6, Rathmines Park, Dublin. Cecil was born in 1893, son of a Civil Service Clerk, educated at Dublin University. He died at sea age 24 and is remembered on the Mikra Memorial in Greece. On that fateful day he was onboard HMT Arcadian when it was torpedoed by a German UC74 in the Cycladic Islands in the Aegean Sea. She was carrying troops from Salonika to Alexandria. Pte. Bell was one of the 233 people who lost their lives that day.