BORN LOWESTOFT, 1889. LIVED IN HULL. SON OF GEORGE WILLIAM & JEMIMA BELL ABOVE. ENLISTED IN THE HULL PALS. KILLED IN ACTION. HIS BROTHER JAMES WAS WOUNDED IN THE SAME ATTACK. HIS DEATH WAS REPORTED IN THE HULL DAILY MAIL ON 10TH JANUARY 1917 WITH HIS PHOTOGRAPH. *
Hull Pals Memorial Post. PRIVATE CHARLES HENRY BELL 12/1112. Born in 1889 in Lowestoft, Suffolk Charles was the second of five children to George and Jemima Bell. The family moved north to Hull and made home at 1 Somerset Terrace, Gillett Street where Charles helped pay the bills working on the fish docks. He enlisted at City Hall on 10th November 1914 joining the 12the Battalion East Yorkshire Regiment, 3rd Hull Pals. His military record is pretty clean- no discipline issues or drunkenness, no injury or wounds- just a short spell out of the line, in May 1916 with influenza to bridge the gap on the page between the day he attested and 13th November 1916 when he is listed as missing presumed killed at Serre on the Somme. His body never was not recovered and Charles Henry Bell is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial; he was 27 years old.
