Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 06/10/1916
- Date of Discharge
- 15/12/1919
- Place of Enlistment
- Duntroon ACT
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 14/08/1894
- Place of Birth
- Nyngan NSW
- Address (at enlistment)
- Grose Vale NSW
- Occupation
- Labourer
- Next of Kin
- Mary Bell (mother), Grose Vale NSW
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 3370
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- 56 Battalion AIF
Notes
Bell came from Richmond, near Sydney and enlisted and had his medical at Duntroon on 6 October 1916. He arrived in France in December 1917 and served with the 56th Battalion on the Somme. In September 1918 he was wounded in action at Péronne with a gun shot wound to the left ankle resulting in a fractured tibula and repatriation to Australia. On 15 December 1919 he was discharged in Sydney.
Description - height 5 feet 5½ inches, weight 138 pounds, chest 34-37 inches, fresh complexion, grey eyes, dark brown hair, Church of England, tattoos on his left and right forearms.
Sources
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)