20 December 2009

1036679 Sgt James Bell MM, Royal Artillery

Dundee-born 1036679 Sergeant James Bell MM of the Royal Artillery, died on the 20th December 1941. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission records that at the time of his death he was 45 years old and serving with the 102nd (The Northumberland Hussars) Light A.A./Anti-Tank Regiment. Sergeant Bell, a Military Medal recipient, was also the husband of Ethel Bell of Chilham in Kent. He has no known grave and is commemorated on the Alamein Memorial in Egypt.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (1939-1945 Roll of Honour)
Commonwealth War Graves Commission

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