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Hint: This site is intended as a search aid - not a definitive source. It is essentially an index to documents that seem to relate to this person plus a very brief precis of relevant elements. Sources often conflict and I also flag things with a ? when I am unsure. So if the information below is important to you, then please check the original sources to see what else they contain (and in case I have inadvertantly introduced transcription and/or precising errors). There can be additional information that was not included in the database for both space and copyright reasons.

 

Surname		BELL
Given Name(s) or Initial(s)		Frederick William
Regimental Number
Rank		Lieutenant
Unit Name		6th West Australia Mounted Infantry
State		WA
Extracts and Comments (from Sources as shown)		Murray: 1WAMI, VC Brakpan 16.5.1901 London Gazette 4.10.1901. Source:# 343 'A'Coy. West Australian: letters from Johannesburg 5.6.1901 & Middleburg 25.7.1901, Mentioned in Despatches citation. URL2: sailed for Eng. 3.5.1902 aboard the 'Orient' on passage home. URL3: Lt. Col. FW BELL VC EIIR Coronation Medal 1962. URL4: Aust. Boer War Memorial database record. Source:# 1121 BELL VC, Captain in command of the WA Half Squadron 2ACH having joined unit in S. Africa. URL6: Capt. F BELL VC not returning with 6WAMI, recommended for command of WA Section of First Commonwealth Contingent. URL7: Capt. Fred BELL VC OC WA Section First Commonwealth Contingent vice Capt. HURST RAA.
Source References		Murray: Official Records of the Australian Contingents etc. page(s) 419 420 426 Wallace1: The Australians at the Boer War page(s) 324-5 Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 343 West Australian: West Australian newspaper date(s) 5.4, 10.7, 17.8, 17 & 27.9 & 21.10.1901 and 12 & 26.4.1902 Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 374 B4418: National Archives of Australia series B4418 Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1121 W. Mail: Western Mail newspaper date(s) 26.4.1902 Source:# Oz-Boer contributed source number 1602 Darebin's Boer War page 79
External Link URL1		www.ozemail.com.au/~jcantwel/winners/bell.htm
External Link URL2		www.angloboerwar.com/Other/shipping/190205.htm
External Link URL3		naa12.naa.gov.au/scripts/imagine.asp?B=678287&I=1&SE=1
External Link URL4		bwm.org.au/site/Frederick_BellDD.php
External Link URL5		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24742694
External Link URL6		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article33217306
External Link URL7		nla.gov.au/nla.news-article24743802

Please email me if you can contribute any other relevant information about this person (eg any other military service, where in Australia they came from or when/where they died). Also, if you find an external link broken.


Apology: For some time now it has been difficult to keep up with the newly available sources (especially the Trove newspaper site) plus the flow of contributions and queries. So I have been forced to prioritise maintenance and data entry over replying to correspondence. Nevertheless, your contributions are being added to the database and acknowledged on the contributions page and, although my replies are many months behind, I will attempt to get to them more often.

 

Colin Roe
Canberra

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