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Pte. Walter Rose Belcher
British Army 2nd Btn. Leicestershire Regiment
from:Hinckley
Walter Rose Belcher was a coal miner, but joined the army and served as batman to Lt-Col Ernest Clive Atkins during the First World War.
Pte. Thomas Belford
British Army
(d.21 March 1918)
Company Sjt Mjr. Bell
Army Durham Light Infantry
Pte. Thomas Bell
British Army 1st Btn. West Yorkshire Regiment
from:Gateshead
2nd Lt. A. W. Bell
Army Durham Light Infantry
Pte. A.W. Bell
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Willington
A W Bell was wounded in August 1916
2nd Lt. Albert Bell
British Army 11th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment
from:Newcastle upon Tyne
(d.27th March 1918)
Lt. Anthony M. Bell
British Army 15 Btn. Tank Corps
from:Wheatley, Oxfordshire
Anthony Bell enlisted on the 23rd of April 1917 and appears to have been wounded in July 1917, in France. His name appears both in Oxford University's Roll of Service (BA Christ Church, c. 1915/16, after matriculating 1912) and in the Roll of Service for Wheatley village, Oxfordshire, 1914-18. His father was possibly a clergyman.
Pte. Arthur Osborne Bell
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
(d.1st Jul 1916)
Arthur Bell is remembered on the Theipval Memorial.
Pte. Arthur D. Bell
British Army Royal Scots Fusiliers
I have just found a WW1 medal belonging to Mr. Bell. Any information most appreciated.
Pte. Arthur S. Bell
British Army 1/4th Btn. Seaforth Highlanders
from:Heywood, Lancashire
(d.14th October 1918)
Arthur Bell died of wounds at No.30 Casualty Clearing Station on 14th of October 1918 while serving with 1/4th Seaforth Highlanders in France. Before that he served with the ASC and the Lancashire Fusiliers.
Sgt. Austin Bell
British Army 16th Btn. Royal Irish Rifles
from:Bangor, Ireland
(d.1st Aug 1917)
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.
Pte. Charles Edwin Bell
British Army 15th Veterinary Hospital Army Veterinary Corps
from:Scarborough
(d.3rd September 1917)
This is my Great Great Grandfather. I came across his details whilst searching the Commonwealth War Graves website as we always believed him to be buried somewhere in France. However he is buried in Salonki, Lembet Road Cemetery in Thessaloniki which came as a surprise. What also came as a surprise was his age, him being only 35 years of age upon death. His date of death was also upsetting as according to records the area he was in managed to push back and defeat the troops they were fighting in January 1918. He died on 3rd of September 1917. He served in the Army Veterinary Corps, Unit 15th Veterinary Hospital.
Having done research this would appear to be along the War Horse story that has captured everyone both on film and the stage play. This would fit in completely as my Great Great Grandfather came from a family who worked the land, especially horses in York. He is mentioned in a book of the named War Dead of the Great War in York Minster. Although I have just found him, having done research I feel like I know him, my brother is the double of him looks wise and I feel so much pride to have found out the information I have about him.
Pte Christopher Brown "Yorkie" Bell
British Army 6th Btn Yorkshire Rgt (Green Howards)
from:Sunderland
My great-grandfather Christopher Bell served in the 6th Battalion of the Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards), in both the Dardanelles and on the Western Front where he was badly wounded and lost an arm.
2nd Lt. Donald Simpson Bell VC
British Army 9th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:Wilmslow, Cheshire.
(d.10th July 1916)
Donald Bell was killed in action on the 10th of July 1916 and is buried in the Gordon Dump Cemetery in France. A former professional football player, he was the son of Smith and Annie Bell, of Western Flats, Queen's Rd., Harrogate; husband of Rhoda Bell, of Wilmslow, Cheshire.
An extract from The London Gazette, No. 29740, dated 8th Sept., 1916, records the following:- "For most conspicuous bravery. During an attack a very heavy enfilade fire was opened on the attacking company by a hostile machine gun. 2nd Lt. Bell immediately, and on his own initiative, crept up a communication trench and then, followed by Corpl. Colwill and Pte. Batey, rushed across the open under very heavy fire and attacked the machine gun, shooting the firer with his revolver, and destroying gun and personnel with bombs. This very brave act saved many lives and ensured the success of the attack. Five days later this very gallant officer lost his life performing a very similar act of bravery."
L/Cpl. Douglas George Bell
British Army 10th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:Thetford
(d.4th October 1917)
My Great Uncle Douglas Bell served in WW1 and died, he was a 21 year old Lance Corporal.
Pte. Edgar William Bell
Australian Imperial Force 16th Btn.
(d.2nd May 1915)
Edgar Bell died on the 2nd of May 1915 and is commemorated on the Lone Pine Memorial in the Lone Pine Cemetery, Gallipoli, Turkey. He was the husband of Adelaide Winifred Macrone.
A/Sgt. Edwin Charles Bell
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Edwin Bell served with the 18th Durham Light Infantry attached Assistant Provost Marshall Durham
Act. Capt. Eric Norman Frankland Bell VC.
British Army Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
Capt. Eric Norman Frankland Bell VC
British Army 9th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers
from:Bootle, Liverpool
(d.1st July 1916)
Eric Bell was killed in action 1st July 1916, aged 20 and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial in France. He was the son of Capt. E. H. Bell, of 22 University Rd., Bootle, Liverpool. Native of Enniskillen, Ireland.
An extract from The London Gazette, dated 26th Sept. 1916, records the following: "For most conspicuous bravery. He was in command of a Trench Mortar Battery, and advanced with the Infantry in the attack. When our front line was hung up by enfilading machine gun fire Captain Bell crept forward and shot the machine gunner. Later, on no less than three occasions, when our bombing parties, which were clearing the enemy's trenches, were unable to advance, he went forward alone and threw Trench Mortar bombs among the enemy. When he had no more bombs available he stood on the parapet, under intense fire, and used a rifle with great coolness and effect on the enemy advancing to counter-attack. Finally he was killed rallying and reorganising infantry parties which had lost their officers. All this was outside the scope of his normal duties with his battery. He gave his life in his supreme devotion to duty."
Pte. Ernest Thomas Bell
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Served with 18th DLI and Base depot
Ord.Sea. Francis Norman Bell
Royal Navy HMS Glasgow
from:Ilkley, Yorks.
(d.22nd Nov 1917)
Francis Bell was the son of William and Mary Bell; husband of Edith Bell of 17 Wharfedale View, Addingham, Ilkley, Yorks. He was 24 when he died and is buried in the Gamboa British Cemetery in Brazil.
Pte. Fred Bell
British Army 9th Btn. Sherwood Foresters
from:Skelton Farm, Nettleham, Lincs
(d.15th Nov 1918)
Southern bell ringer, Fred Bell, was born in 1984 at Sudbrooke Lincolnshire where his dad, Robert, had been a farm foreman. Robert, who was born at Toft Newton, was a farmer at Skelton House, on the bend half way between Scothern and Nettleham. Just over the Scothern Parish boundary. Robert was married to Sarah and they had six children.
Fred, who worked as a farm worker for his dad, joined the 9th Battalion, Sherwood Foresters in 1914 and was injured on the last day of the war and died 4 days later.
Pte. G.W. Bell
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Thornley
G W Bell was wounded in September 1916
Pte. George Bell
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Seaham
(d.1st July 1916)
Sgt George Bell
British Army 18th (1st Public Works Pioneers) Btn Middlesex Regiment
from:Stoke-on-Trent
My Great Grandfather, Sergeant George Bell, served in the 18th Middlesex Service Battalion in WW1. They arrived in France in November 1915 and arrived at the Somme in July taking part in the attack on High Wood where he received a gunshot wound to his elbow. He also took part in the Battle of Arras and other battles. George was sent back to the UK in September 1918 when he lost his hearing. He was then discharged as no longer fit for service.
Pte. George W. Bell
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Houghton-le-Spring
Sgt. Gilbert Fenwick Bell MM.
British Army Border Regiment
Gilbert Bell served with the Border Regiment and the Northumberland Fusiliers.
Spr. Gordon Thomas Bell
Canadian Expeditionary Force 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company
from:Mannville, Alberta
Gordon Bell was the eldest son of the Bell family who came from Ontario to Alberta in 1905. By 1916, when Gordon joined, he was 21 years old. He signed up for the CEF in Vermillion, Alberta and was assigned to the 151st Overseas Battalion for training, before embarking for England in the fall.
In England, at Shorncliffe, he was transferred to the 11th Reserve Battalion and from there to the Canadian Engineers Training Division for training at Crowborough, England. He was taken on strength with the 1st Canadian Tunnelling Company on December 8, 1916 and joined the unit in the field on December 11, 1916. He served with the Company until struck off strength and transferred to the 5th Battalion, Canadian Engineers 11th of July 1918.
Gordon survived the war. He married in England and returned to Canada where he took a land grant from the Government in northern Alberta. My father, who spent time with Gordon at his homestead in Flat Bush Alberta, remembers Gordon attempting to dig a basement beneath his house. Whether this was typical homesteader construction practice, or a more eccentric approach to adding a basement arising from his experiences during the war are unclear. Gordon died in Edmonton Alberta July 5, 1976.
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