Private Ernest Bell

Army Number : 265489 (formerly 2423)

Battalion : 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at 9, Rancliffe Terrace, Pym Street, Nottingham. Nottingham. Husband of Frances Annie Bell. He was a railway stoker prior to enlisting at Nottingham. Went to France on 28th June 1915 and was killed in action, on 1st July 1916, in the attack on the German positions at Gommecourt, France, on the first day of the Battle of the Somme.

Commemorated: Thiepval Memorial, France. Pier and Face 10 C 10 D and 11 A.

Private Ernest Bell is also commemorated on the following memorials:-
Victoria Embankment War Memorial, Nottingham.