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• Name
• Initials
• Vorname
• Place of birth Derry
• Land Ireland
• Last residence 18 Portland Crescent,Wellington, New Zealand
• Family Son of John Bell (ex-Serjt. Royal Irish Constabulary) and Margaret Arm Bell, of Ballygoney, Coagh, Co. Tyrone, Ireland.
• Profession Police constable
• Extra info Previously served for five years with the Royal Irish Constabulary

Military service

• Place & date of enlistment 24 July 1916, Trentham
• Service number 32499
• Rank Lance Corporal
• Medals War Medal, Victory Medal
• Regiment and unit 1st Bn. Otago Regiment
• Other data related to military career Promoted to Serjeant October 1916; to France June 1917; wounded in action August 1917 and March 1918
  Embarked 13 February 1917, Wellington

Death

• Wounded 18 February
• Type of wounds Died of gunshot wounds in the chest, lung and left forearm, in n°2 Can CCS
• Died at the age of 29
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XXVII - E - 8A

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