Name
Horace Stanley Bell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
17/06/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
202990
Worcestershire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
NIEDERZWEHREN CEMETERY, KASSEL
VIII. B. 1.
Germany
Headstone Inscription
HE FOUGHT THE FIGHT THE VICTORY WON AND ENTERED INTO REST
UK & Other Memorials
St Albans Citizens Memorial, Town Hall (old) Memorial, St Albans, Not on the Harpenden memorials
Pre War
Born in 1898 in Colkirk, Norfolk to Arthur William Bell & Faith (nee Betts). On the 1901 census the family were still living in Colkirk but Horace’s mother had died in 1900 and his father had married again to Sarah Ann (nee Lake). On the 1911 census the family home was now in Knaresborough, Yorkshire. His father later lived at Bank Cottage, Holywell Hill, St Albans, Herts.
Wartime Service
Horace initially enlisted as Private 202990 in the 10th (Service) Battalion Worcestershire Regiment at Sheffield. He was later transferred to 1st Battalion. Horace died of wounds and is buried in Niederzwehren Cemetery, Kassel, Germany. This cemetery consists of burials from deaths in POW Camp nearby and also concentrations from many POW Camps in Germany.
Additional Information
War Gratuity of £7 and arrears of £7 8s 19 0d. paid to his father.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Gareth Hughes
