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Military Information

  • Date of enlistment:
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  • Service no: 200137
  • Rank: Corporal
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  • Regiment/Service: Black Watch
  • Unit/Ship: 4th/5th Battalion

Personal Information

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  • Address: 42 Forebank Rd, Dundee
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  • Father:

    James Bell, 42 Forebank Rd, Dundee

  • Siblings:

    George and 2nd brother (name unknown)

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  • Age at Death: 62
  • Date of Death: 1958
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More about Richard Bell

Dundee Courier Saturday 2nd March 1918 
Dundee Black Watch Man Wounded. 
Mr James Bell, 42 Forebank Road, Dundee has received imitation that his son , Corporal Richard Bell, Black Watch , had been wounded on 15th Feburary. 
Prior to the outbreak of hostilities he was a reservist, and was mobilised in August 1914. A brother was killed at the Battle of Loos and another brother is a stoker in the Royal Navy.

Richard was the brother of Pte George Bell 3496, 4th Battalion, Black Watch who was killed in action 25.09.1915.

Information kindly supplied by Mark Webster

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