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Private WILLIAM NELSON BELL

Service Number: B/133045
Regiment & Unit/Ship

1st Canadian Parachute Battalion, R.C.I.C.

Date of Death

Died 27 August 1944

Age 22 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY

XVI. C. 20.

France

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  • Country of Service Canadian
  • Additional Info Son of Harold John and Annie Isobel Bell, of Arthur, Ontario, Canada.
  • Personal Inscription SADLY MISSED BY FATHER, MOTHER, SISTERS AND BROTHERS
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Buried or commemorated at

BAYEUX WAR CEMETERY
Calvados France
Number of casualties: 4654
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