H. Bell
Epithet: First World War soldier
Record type: First World War Biographies
Town / Village residence: Douglas
Biography: First World War Soldier. 'No .6834. L.Corporal. 3 Shropshire L.I. (Light Infantry ''Cothorne'' [Copthorne] Barracks Shrewsbury Nov. Signed papers & found family not visited. Mar.16 reported at ''Defensible'' Barracks Pembroke Dock. May 31. British Expeditionary Force. Wounded in several places in leg by Shrapnel Jun 14. Died of Wounds June 24. in Middlesex Hosp. Buried at Braddan June 27.' (Extract from handwritten notes by The Reverend Robert Daniel Kermode, Vicar of St George's Church, Douglas, about men from his parish serving in the First World War. MS 10003/1)
External sources: 5 Peveril Street