Profile

BELL, George Edison
(Service number 55401)

Aliases
First Rank	Private	Last Rank

Birth

Date	04/02/1897	Place of Birth	New Zealand

Enlistment Information

Date		Age
Address at Enlistment	Hook, Waimate
Occupation
Previous Military Experience
Marital Status
Next of Kin	W. BELL (father), Woodstock, Waimate
Religion	Methodist
Medical Information

Military Service

Served with	NZ Armed Forces	Served in	Army
Military District

Embarkation Information

Body on Embarkation	New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Unit, Squadron, or Ship	28th Reinforcements, Canterbury Infantry Regiment, C Company
Date	26 July 1917
Transport	Ulimaroa
Embarked From		Destination	Plymouth, Devon, England

Other Units Served With
Last Unit Served With

Military Awards

Campaigns
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	5 August 1939	Age	42 years
Place of Death	Waimate
Cause
Notices
Memorial or Cemetery	Waimate Old Cemetery
Memorial Reference	Plot 64
New Zealand Memorials

Biographical Notes

George Edison Bell was the second son of William and Ellen Taylor (née Raitt) Bell. Casualty List No. 834 named George Edison Bell as wounded and admitted to hospital in early April 1918. His brother Archie also enlisted.

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Cenotaph Database [18 March 2020]; NZBDM Indexes (Department of Internal Affairs) [22 March 2020]; Waimate Old Cemetery record. [22 March 2020]; Timaru Herald, 22 April 1918 (Papers Past) [01 September 1914]

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Researched and Written by

Teresa Scott, SC branch NZSG

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