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BELL, Norman Matau
(Service number 7/ 11)

Trumpeter N M Bell — From" "South Canterbury Roll of Honour", published 1916 by the South Canterbury Caledonian Society. (South Canterbury Museum 17/15)

Waimate volunteers for the Main Body, 1914 — Those pictured are identified on the verso as (from left to right): BACK ROW: J Cochrane, J Ryan*, J McGillery, Wilson, J Jobin, J Horgan, M Duggan, A Hodgen, H Minniss*, Hunt, A Kirby, E Leonard, W Tavendale*; 2nd ROW: J Tennant, J Cochrane*, J Carr*, M Bell*, IMC Thatche(?), Lieut. Guinness*, Major P Wain, SM [Sergeant-Major] Dixon, AR Manchester, Hoskins, R Bee, Hunt; FRONT ROW: J Wall, Horgan, P Sullivan, R Frost, R J Waldie, L Wilson*, Robbins, A Martin, J Campbell*, J Gynes

NB: Those names marked with an asterisk (*) were underlined in red as "killed or died of wounds". (Courtesy of R Waldie. South Canterbury Museum L2014/025.01)

1st Contingent 8th S.C.M.R. to leave Waimate for the 1914-1918 War — Pictured are:
Back: Rainey, G; Frost, R; Julian, W; Cochrane, John; Tennant, John; Cochrane, James; Nichol N; Cameron, C; Robins; Rickman, E A; ?
3rd R: McKenzie, J (alexander John); Duggan, M; Tobin ,J; Tavendale, W; Campbell, J; Gynes; Hodgson, J; McKenzie, R S (Percy?); Samuels, H [actually Henry Samuel Miniss]; Copland; Fitzharris, P; Gill, J
2nd R: Fraser; Whitta, J H; Carr, J; Manchester, A R; Wain, P J; Finlay, John; Bailey, G C; Sloan, P; Bell, N; Menzies, W; Spencer, E; Ryan, E
Front: McGrath, W; Keane, T; Wall, T; Hunt; ?; Hogan, H (Courtesy of Waimate Museum & Archives, P2183 )

Waimate War Memorial, pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #01)

Waimate War Memorial (left panel), pictured in 2011 — (South Canterbury Museum 2013/155.33 #04)

Aliases
First Rank	Sergeant	Last Rank	Sergeant

Birth

Date	29/10/1890	Place of Birth

Enlistment Information

Date	3 August 1914	Age	23
Address at Enlistment
Occupation	Law clerk
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status	Single
Next of Kin	Mrs Elizabeth Bell (mother), 1 Constitution St, Dunedin
Religion	Presbyterian
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	Main Body
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	Canterbury Mounted Rifles
Date	16 October 1914
Transport	Tahiti
Embarked From	Lyttelton	Destination	Suez, Egypt

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With	Canterbury Mounted Rifles

Military Awards

Campaigns	Egyptian 1914, 1915; Gallipoli 1915
Service Medals
Military Awards

Award Circumstances and Date

No information

Prisoner of War Information

Date of Capture
Where Captured and by Whom
Actions Prior to Capture
PoW Serial Number
PoW Camps
Days Interned
Liberation Date

Discharge

Date		Reason

Hospitals, Wounds, Diseases and Illnesses

Post-war Occupations

Death

Date	20 July 1915	Age
Place of Death	At sea, HMHS Sicilia ex Gallipoli
Cause	Died from dysentery
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Lone Pine Memorial, Lone Pine Vemetery, Anzac, Turkey
Memorial Reference	71
New Zealand Memorials	On Memorial wall, Timaru; Waimate First World War Memorial

Biographical Notes

Son of Mrs Elizabeth Bell and George Bell

Sources

Cenotaph Sep 2013

External Links

Military personnel file

Researched and Written by

Carol Bell, SC branch NZSG & Timaru Herald

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