William Henry Dillon Bell

Forenames

William Henry Dillon AWMM

Surname

Bell AWMM

Also known as

Hal AWMM

Service number

WWI 1/01 AWMM

Gender

Male AWMM

Birth

1 Mar 1884 AWMM

Address before enlistment

WW1 Pre 1914 AWMM 47 Molesworth Street, Wellington, New Zealand AWMM

Next of kin

WW1 Gladys Bell, Union Bank of Australia (Limited), London, England AWMM

Relationship status

Pre 15 Aug 1914 AWMM Married/WWI AWMM

War

World War I, 1914-1918 AWMM

Campaign

• 1914-1918 AWMM Battles of Ypres AWMM
• 1917 AWMM Passchendaele AWMM

Armed force / branch

Army AWMM

Service number

WWI 1/01 AWMM

Promotions/ Postings/ Transfers

King Edward's Horse (The King's Oversea Dominions Regiment) AWMM

Medals and Awards

• Mentioned in Despatches (MiD) AWMM
• Victory Medal AWMM
• British War Medal (1914-1920) AWMM

Enlistment

WW1 1914 AWMM Member of Parliament/Civilian AWMM

Embarkation details

WW1 HMNZT 1 or HMNZT 2 AWMM Vessel was Moeraki or Monowai AWMM Lieutenant/Military AWMM Headquarters AWMM Samoan Advance Party AWMM

Medical notes

Killed in Action, Cause of Death AWMM

Last rank

WW1 Captain/Military AWMM

William Dillon Bell was the son of Hon. Sir Francis Bell, G.C.M.G., and Lady Bell, of Wellington, New Zealand.

Captain Dillon Bell was the first Member of Parliament to go on active service in WWI. AWMM

Death

31 Jul 1917 AWMM
Age  33 AWMM

Cause of death

Killed in Action AWMM

Memorial name

Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial, Ieper, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium AWMM

Related objects

External links

• Military personnel file
  https://collections.archives.govt.nz/web/arena/search/#/entity/aims-archive/R22274534
  Further Reference
• Commonwealth War Graves Commission.
  https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/927398/bell,-william-henry-dillon/
  Sources Used
• New Zealand Lawyers Roll of Honour, New Zealand Law Society website
  http://www.lawsociety.org.nz/news-and-communications/people-in-the-law/obituaries/obituaries-list/william-henry-dillon-bell,-1884-1917
  Further Reference
• King Edward's Horse', Wikipedia
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_Edward%27s_Horse
  Further Reference
• http://www.kingedwardshorse.net/
  Further Reference
• Wikidata Entity
  http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q8011962
  Further Reference
• New Zealand War Graves Trust
  https://www.nzwargraves.org.nz/
  Further Reference

References

• McDonald, W. (2013). Honours and Awards to the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 1914-1918. (3rd ed.). Hamilton, N.Z.: Richard Stowers.
• New Zealand Army Expeditionary Force. (1914-1919). Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Volume I. Wellington, N.Z.: Govt. Printer.
  Page No: 48
• Volunteers: the Journal of the New Zealand Military Historical Society
  The Volunteers. Vol 18, October 1992. No. 2.
• Beattie, P.J. & Pomeroy, M. (2013-2020). Onward : portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force (vols 1-5). Auckland, New Zealand: Fair Dinkum Publications
  Vol. 2: Includes portrait
• This record is a work in progress and was partially compiled from the Nominal Roll on www.kingedwardshorse.net and with the research of Pou Maumahara Volunteer, Janet Anderson. Information reproduced with permission.
• HMNZT 1. Pull-thro' : with which is incorporated The Noumea nightmare, the Suva sendoff, and Samoa sun : the unofficial organ of the Advance Party of the N.Z. Expeditionary Force, Apia, Samoa. [Apia, Samoa] : Literary Committee of the Advance Party of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, 1914-