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Lieutenant Colonel JOHN DOUGLAS BELL

Service Number: 20396
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Army Ordnance Corps

7 Army Field Workshop

Date of Death

Died 27 May 1940

Age 43 years old

Buried or commemorated at

DUNKIRK TOWN CEMETERY

Plot 1 Row 1 Joint grave 26.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Military Cross
  • Additional Info Son of William and Elizabeth Bell; husband of Mary Stewart Bell, of Bridge of Weir, Renfrewshire. B.Sc., Eng., M.I.Mech.
  • Personal Inscription DEATH IS THE GATEWAY TO LIFE
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