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Robert Irvine Bell

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  • Service number
    WWI 10/1414 AWMM
  • Also known as
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • Wellington Regiment Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Last rank
  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
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Identity

About

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Robert Irvine AWMM
  • Surname
    Bell AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    WWI 10/1414 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
  • Iwi / Hapū / Waka / Rohe
  • Religion
    Presbyterian Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Military Record

Civilian life

About birth

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  • Birth
    8 July 1891 Public Source
  • Date of birth
    8 July 1891 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Place of birth
    Scotland Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Birth notes
    son of Robert BELL Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Address before enlistment
    • Unknown AWMM Gisborne, New Zealand AWMM
    • 22 Salisbury Road, Gisborne Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
    Robert Bell (father), Rosekirk Cottages, Low Monkland Road, Coatbridge, Scotland AWMM
  • Relationship status
    • Pre 14 February 1915 AWMM Single AWMM
    • 1915 married (1st) Margaret Catherine MacKAY in Egypt
      1918 married (2nd) Miriam Evangleline ABERHART in Marlborough, NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Military Record & Research

Service

Wars and conflicts

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  • War
    World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM
  • Campaign
    Egyptian - Gallipoli; Egyptian - Mudros; Western European: France , Belguim Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Armed force / branch
    • Army AWMM
    • Wellington Regiment Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Service number
    WWI 10/1414 AWMM
  • Military service
    1914-1917 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

Military decorations

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Training and Enlistment

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  • Military training
  • Branch Trade Proficiency
  • Enlistment
    • WW1 AWMM
    • 29 Dec 1914 at Trentham Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Occupation before enlistment
    Labourer Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Military Record
  • Age on enlistment
    23yrs 4mths Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Military Record

Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
  • POW liberation details
  • POW serial number

Medical history

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  • Medical notes

Last known rank

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  • Last rank
    • Private Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Military Record

Biographical information

Biographical information

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  • Robert Irvine BELL meet his 1st wife, Margaret Catherine MacKAY while in Egypt. She was a nurse, (of Scottish birth) and they probably meet when Robert was admitted to hospital when he was wounded during the battle at the Dardanelles. Robert was invalided home to NZ in Aug 1917 and Margaret also came to NZ around that time. They together returned to Gisborne 16 Oct 1917. On the 24th Oct 1917, Margaret was accidently drowned during a boating accident at Waikanae Beach. Margaret Catherine BELL is buried in the Taruheru Cemetery, Gisborne - Block Sec 1; Plot 422. She was aged 27yrs and had only been in NZ 10 days.
    Robert BELL married his 2nd wife Miriam E ABERHART in Marlborough Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Research & Newspapers reports from the Poverty Bay Herald
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Death

About death

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  • Death
    20 October 1928 AWMM
  • Date of death
  • Age at death
    36yrs Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Karori Cemetery Records, Wellington
  • Place of death
    Wellington, NZ Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Karori Cemetery Records, Wellington
  • Cause of death
    Accident Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Karori Cemetery Records, Wellington
  • Death notes
  • Cemetery
    Karori Cemetery and Crematorium AWMM Soldiers Section, Plot 2 Y AWMM
  • Cemetery name
    Karori Cemetery, Wellington Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Karori Cemetery Records, Wellington
  • Grave reference
    Section: Soldiers; Plot 2Y; Record # 89074 Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Karori Cemetery Records, Wellington
  • Obituary
    The death occurred at an early hour in the Hospital of Robert BELL, aged 36, a lorry driver who was severely burned and had his neck cut when attempting to escape from a blazing whare at Paraparaumu in the early hours of Friday morning Public - Lorraine M - Researcher - 28 November 2016 - Research - Newspaper Report
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Memorials

Memorial

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  • I want to acknowledge my great grandfather who I am learning about. What a great man you were and are. I am looking forward to learning so much more about you and your son (my grandfather) also Robert Irvine Bell.
    Public - Rose - Direct descendant - 21 September 2023
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21 September 2023RoseNew Zealand Direct descendant
28 November 2016Lorraine MGisborne, NZResearcher

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