Private Samuel Bell

Army Number : 70997 (formerly 27038 Leicestershire Regiment)

Battalion : 9th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Notts & Derbys) Regiment.

Born and lived at Leicester. Son of Joseph and Ellen Bell, of 20, Westbourne Street, Leicester. Husband of Charlotte Bell. He was a barber prior to enlisting at Leicester. He was killed in action, 24th November 1916, during a German artillery barrage, whilst on a working party to the north of Beaumont Hamel, France, during the Battle of the Somme.

Buried Hamel Military Cemetery, Beaumont-Hamel, France. Plot 2. Row E. Grave 2.

Hamel Military Cemetery, Beaumont Hamel, France.

Private Samuel Bell grave — Photograph of grave kindly supplied by Roger Frankish

Private Samuel Bell is also commemorated on the following local memorials :-
St. Mark’s Church War Memorial, Leicester.