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  • BELL
  • WJA
  • WILLIAM JOHN ALBERT
  • Derry
  • Ireland
  • 18 Portland Crescent,Wellington, New Zealand
  • Son of John Bell (ex-Serjt. Royal Irish Constabulary) and Margaret Arm Bell, of Ballygoney, Coagh, Co. Tyrone, Ireland.
  • Police constable
  • Previously served for five years with the Royal Irish Constabulary

Military service

  • 24 July 1916, Trentham
  • 32499
  • Lance Corporal
  • War Medal, Victory Medal
  • 1st Bn. Otago Regiment
  • 2nd Brigade
  • New Zealand Division
  • N.Z.E.F.
  • Promoted to Serjeant October 1916; to France June 1917; wounded in action August 1917 and March 1918
    Embarked 13 February 1917, Wellington

Death

  • 18 February
  • Died of gunshot wounds in the chest, lung and left forearm, in n°2 Can CCS
  • 21 February 1918
  • 29
  • XXVII - E - 8A

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