Private Walter George Bell
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Bell,
Walter George
Date of birth: 1895-05-22
Place of birth: London
Next of kin: Mrs Edith Annie Bell, Mother, 18 De Crespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, England.
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Farmer
Occupation (normalized): General Farmer
Address:
Balmoral House,511, 5th Avenue West, Calgary
Religion: Church of England
Date of death:
1917-04-08
Cause of death:
Killed in action
Buried:
Vimy Memorial, N/A
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 808166
Highest Rank:
Private
(10th Battalion)
Rank detail
- Private (Army). 1916-01-16 ?
- Private, 10th Battalion, Infantry (Army).
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: no
Battle wounded/killed: Killed in preliminary operations prior to the Vimy Ridge offensive.
RESEARCH INFORMATION
CVWM ID: No CVWM ID in our database, but try
this.
CWGC ID: 1565170
LAC ID:
36573
Service file: B0623-S053
Uploader's Notes:
Son of Edith Annie Bell, of 86, Vancouver Rd., Forest Hill, London, England, and the late Percy W. Bell.
This man had served in the 69th Calgary 103 Rifles for 2 years.
The battalion war diary states that this man was killed by rifle fire whilst in Victoire Crater. The diary also states that the crater was bombarded by the enemy and also the Canadians bombarded the front lip of the crater but neither caused any casualties.
Uploader's Research notes:
Info from the attestation papers and the 10th Battalion war diary. This man is also on the CWGC site.
Details of death from Ancestry.com which includes a digitized image of the casualty form from the "Canada, War Graves Registers (Circumstances of Casualty), 1914-1948” database
ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2004-09-04
Last modified: 2014-08-27