Major Charles Austin Bell
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Name:
Bell,
Charles Austin
Date of birth: 1891-12-13
Place of birth: Toronto Ontario Canada
Next of kin: Charles H. Bell, Father, 427 Sumach St., Toronto, Ontario
Marital status: single
Occupation (attested): Mining Engineer
Occupation (normalized): Mining Engineer, General
Address:
427 Sumach St., Toronto, Ontario
Date of death:
1967-05-08
MILITARY INFORMATION
Regimental number: 5308
Highest Rank:
Major
(3rd Battalion Canadian Engineers)
Rank detail
- Major, 3rd Battalion Canadian Engineers, Canadian Engineers (Army). 1918-05-24 to 1918-08-08
- Captain (Army). 1917-07-05 to 1918-05-23
- Lieutenant (Army). 1916-08-07 to 1917-07-04
- Second Lieutenant (Army). 1916-03-25 to 1916-05-14
- Sergeant-Major (Army). 1915-12-20 to 1916-03-12
- Sergeant (Army). 1914-11-01 to 1915-04-26
- Corporal (Army). 1914-09-22 to 1914-11-01
Degree of service: Europe
Survived war: yes
Awards
Military Cross
Military Cross First Bar
Images
RESEARCH INFORMATION
LAC ID:
35680
Service file: B0608-S034
Uploader's Notes:
See attached article. Highlights:
enlisted with 1st Contingent, Canadian Field Engineers, not the 2nd Contingentreported wounded in a Toronto Evening Telegram article dated May 6th, 1915 (see attached)previously served 6 years with the Engineers (according to above article), however, on his attestation he wrote 5 yearsgraduate of Harbord Collegiate1 and the School of Practical Science (Toronto)previously a mining enginner at Copper Cliff, OntarioNote: there was a Pte. Cecil Austin Bell, 75th Battalion, of Toronto who died Sept. 30, 1918. Occasionally the name is confused with Charles Austin Bell.
1Harbord Collegiate has a memorial statue in the front of their building that lists the war dead for this school. It was recently restored.
Uploader's Research notes:
Source: M. I. Pirie
http://www.archive.org/stream/listofofficersme00greauoft#page/297/mode/1up
http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/databases/cef/001042-119.01-e.php?&id_nbr=35680&interval=20&&PHPSESSID=9bsu9bg7af8vabaahkmg77qj01 sevice records on line
[Corporal Army Canadian Engineers 1st Canadian Divisional Engineers 2nd Field Company Sergeant Army Canadian Engineers 1st Canadian Divisional Engineers 2nd Field Company Wounded 26/4/1915, Gunshot Wound to Left Loin Company Sergeant Major Army Canadian Engineers 1st Canadian Divisional Engineers 2nd Field Company Second Lieutenant Army Canadian Engineers 1st Canadian Divisional Engineers 2nd Field Company Lieutenant Army Canadian Engineers 1st Canadian Divisional Engineers 2nd Field Company Captain Army Canadian Engineers 1st Canadian Divisional Engineers 3rd Field Company Major Army Canadian Engineers 3rd Battalion Military Cross Military Cross First Bar ]ARCHIVAL INFORMATION
Date added: 2008-03-21
Last modified: 2011-10-27