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Auction: 19003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 30

Canada General Service 1866-70, 1 clasp, Fenian Raid 1866 (Captain J. F. Bell, 47th Foot), officially impressed naming, minor edge nick, nearly extremely fine

John Frederic Bell was born at Wallington, Norfolk in September 1838, the son of a Downham Market solicitor. Along with his older brother Henry, he became an articled clerk to his father on 20 February 1855. In 1858 he was commissioned into the 47th (Loyal North Lancashire) Regiment of Foot, advancing to Lieutenant in 1860 while serving in Canada. Bell married Maria Aletta Napier, the only daughter of Major-General George Thomas Conolly Napier, at Toronto on 16 October 1861. Promoted to Captain in 1865, he served during the Fenian Raids before returning to England with his family. The 1871 census shows him as Deputy Governor of Dartmoor Prison. His Canada General Service Medal was sent to H.M. Prison Norwich, of which he became Governor in 1899. He died in Ealing, Middlesex on 13 July 1911, leaving an estate of £220 9s 4d; sold with copied research.

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£480

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£270