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Military service
Age:
24
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Division:
4th Machine Gun Coy.
Enlistment:
Toronto, Ontario
Death:
September 15, 1916
Burial/memorial information
Additional information
Son of James Anthony Bell and Katherine Bell, of 81, Elm St., St. Thomas, Ontario.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant William Douglas Bell
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Photo of WILLIAM DOUGLAS BELL
Submitted for the project, Operation: Picture Me -
Osgoode Hall War Memorial
Osgoode Hall War Memorial, Toronto, Ontario. -
Newspaper Clipping
From the Dutton Advance for 28 September 1916. -
Inscription
His name as it is inscribed on the Vimy Memorial. Over 11,000 fallen Canadians having no known place of burial in France, are honoured on this Memorial. May they never be forgotten. (J. Stephens) -
Newspaper clipping
In memory of the men and women of London, Ontario (and area) who went to war and did not come home. Remembered on the pages of the World War One issues of the London Advertiser. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Memorial
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Memorial
Inscription - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022 -
Memorial
Mourning Mother - Vimy Memorial … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Douglas Bell
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Douglas Bell
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Douglas Bell
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Douglas Bell
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Douglas Bell
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Douglas Bell
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant William Douglas Bell
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 53 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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