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Auction: 22103 - Orders, Decorations and Medals VII - e-Auction
Lot: 280

The Victory Medal awarded to Private J. S. Bell, 2nd Canterbury Regiment, New Zealand Expeditionary Force, who died of wounds on 17 October 1917

Victory Medal 1914-1919 (23/2542 Pte. J. S. Bell. N.Z.E.F.), minor edge bruising and contact wear, very fine

Joseph Sumpton Bellwas born at Lamplugh, Cumberland on 7 May1889 and worked as an iron ore miner prior to the Great War. It was this vocation which took him to New Zealand with the Westport Coal Company. Settling at Millerton, Bell attested on 20 November 1915 with the New Zealand Expeditionary Force. Posted first to Second Reserve Battalion Embarking for France on 20 May 1916 he served there with 13th Company, 2nd Battalion, Canterbury Regiment. Bell suffered a gunshot wound to the chest on 12 October 1917, taken by No. 1 New Zealand Field Ambulance to No. 3 Australian Casualty Clearing Station on 13 October he was moved to No. 8 General Hospital at Rouen three days later. Unfortunately nothing could be done and Bell died the next day on 17 October, he is buried at Bois Guillaume Communal Cemetery Extension; sold together with an original N.Z.E.F. cap badge, missing one arm to the cross, and a number of photographs as well as copied research including census data, service papers and Commonwealth War Graves details.

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£60

Starting price
£20