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SOUTH SHIELDS

Bell, J.T., Pte. 1915

Menin Gate Memorial

On the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial is 2858 Private Joseph Bell, serving with the 1/7th Battalion Durham Light Infantry, who died 26/05/1915.

Joseph Bell was born 1st November 1894, and his father Joseph was a house painter and later a foreman. Mother was called Alice Bell.

He was employed as a clerk at a local saw mill, and was killed in action on the 26th May 1915.

He is remembered at Harton on H104.03, at South Shields on S86.003, S86.093 and S86.127


South Shields Grammar School
The CWGC entry for Private Bell

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