Ernest Bell
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He was the husband of Frances Annie (née Woodward) Bell and the father of Lily Frances, William and Lois Bell. In 1911 they lived at 8 Willoughby Place Lenton Nottingham.
Private Ernest Bell, enlisted in Nottingham and served with the 1/7th Battalion Sherwood Foresters (Nottinghamshire & Derbyshire) Regiment (Robin Hood Rifles). He was killed in action on the first day of the Battle of the Somme, on 1st July 1916, he has no known grave, his name is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial
Nottingham Evening Post ‘In Memoriam’ (abridged) 30 April 1917: ‘Private E Bell, 9 Rancliffe Terrace, Pym Street, Nottingham. July 1st killed in action.’
