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VC726 Donald Simpson Bell
BORN 3 December 1890
DIED 10 July 1916 AGE 25
VC Won 5 July 1916 AGE 25
Place VC Won La Boiselle, Somme, France
War/Campaign First World War 1916
Name Donald Simpson Bell No. POSTHUMOUS
VC Issue No. 726 Awards VC
Regiment Yorkshire (Alexandra, Princess of Wales's Own) Regiment, 9th Battalion
Later Green Howards
Now 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment - Disbanded, July 2012
Rank VC Won Temporary Second Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Temporary Second Lieutenant
Place Of Birth Queens Road, Harrogate, Yorkshire, England
Place Of Death Contalmaison, Somme, France
Buried/Location Ashes Gordon Dump Cemetery, Ovillers-la-Boiselle, 4 miles east of Albert, Somme, France
Cremated
Date Buried/Cremated
Headstone Headstone (CWGC) Plot/Grave no. Plot 4, Row A, Grave 8
Gazetted 9 September 1916
VC Presented 13 December 1916 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England to his widow Rhoda
Memorials
P Headstone, Gordon Dump Cemetery, Ovillers-la-Boiselle, 4 miles east of Albert, Somme, France
Memorial, Starbeck School, Starbeck, North Yorkshire
Named On War Memorial, St Peters School, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
P Named On War Memorial, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Memorial, St Pauls Church, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
P Named On Victoria Cross Memorial, Victoria Gardens, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
P Named On Victoria Cross Memorial, By The War Memorial, Harrogate, North Yorkshire
P Memorial At Site Of Action, Bells Redoubt, Contalmaison, Somme, France
Stained Glass Window, Oxford Brookes University, Oxford, Oxfordshire
By The Way…
Before the War he was a professional footballer with Bradford Park Avenue in 1912
VC Held By
The Professional Footballers Association, On Loan To The National Football Museum, URBIS Building, Cathedral Gardens, Manchester
