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Auction: 8010 - Orders, Decorations, Medals & Militaria
Lot: 255

A Great War Group of Three to Private L.P. Bell, London Regiment, Killed in Action, 27.3.1915 1914 Star (1527 Pte. L.P. Bell. 16/Lond.R.); British War and Victory Medals (1527 Pte. L.P. Bell. 16-Lond.R.), nearly extremely fine, with Great War Bronze Memorial Plaque, ´Laureston Percival Bell´, and a photographic image of recipient from his entry in De Ruvigny´s Roll of Honour Estimate £ 180-220 1527 Private Lauriston Percival Bell, born Kensington, London, 1894; educated at London Orphanage, Watford; served during the Great War with the 16th (Queen´´s Westminster Rifles) Battalion London Regiment on the Western Front from 1.11.1914; he was killed in action 27.3.1915; from January - June 1915 the battalion occupied trenches in the Houpelines sector; the Battalion War Diary entry for the day that Bell was killed gives, ´´a quiet uneventful day - fine weather - aircraft active... 1 killed´´, it is possible that he was killed by a sniper, in a letter of condolence to Bell´´s mother Captain G.H. Lambert (officer commanding IV Coy) writes, ´´Your son.... was killed in the trenches yesterday morning. It may be small consolation to you, in your great trouble, to know that he died as he had lived a true soldier, and in him I have lost one of my good men´´; Bell is buried in the Houpelines Communal Cemetery Extension.

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