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Surname: BELL
Forename(s): James Pickard
Place of Birth: Aysgarth, Yorkshire
Service No: 153353
Rank: Private
Regiment / Corps / Service: Canadian Infantry
Battalion / Unit: 43rd Battalion (Cameron Highlanders of Canada)
Division: 3rd Canadian Division
Age: ---
Date of Death: 1916-10-08
Awards: ---
CWGC Grave / Memorial Reference: ---
CWGC Cemetery: ---
CWGC Memorial: VIMY MEMORIAL
Non-CWGC Burial: ---
Local War Memorial: AYSGARTH, YORKSHIRE
Additional Information:
James Pickard Bell (born 17 July 1888) was the son of William and Barbara Bell, née Pickard. William was born at Castle Bolton and Barbara at Carperby, Yorkshire.
1891 Leyburn, Yorkshire Census: Station House, Railway Station - James P. Bell, aged 2 years, born Aysgarth Station, son of William and Barbara Bell.
1901 Barlby, Yorkshire Census: Barlby Road - James Pickard Bell, aged 12 years, born Aysgarth, Yorkshire, son of William and Barbara Bell.
1911 Selby, Yorkshire Census: 40, Ousegate - James Pickard Bell, aged 22 years, born Aysgarth, Yorkshire. Coal Merchant. [James, and his brother, Robert, were boarding with William Henry and Elsie Mary Owen.]
James is commemorated in the Rolls of Honour at the Scottish National War Memorial, Edinburgh.
A short biography of James is included in: ‘Wensleydale Remembered – The Sacrifice made by the Families of a Northern Dale 1914-1918 and 1939-1945’ by Keith Taylor (2004).
Canadian service records: http://www.baclac.gc.ca/eng/discover/military-heritage/first-world-war/first-world-war-1914-1918-cef
Photograph © IWM (113646) – caption: Private James Pickard Bell, 153353, 43rd Canadians, No. 1 Co. Grenade Section, missing Oct. 8th 1916.
Data Source: Local War Memorial
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Entry in West Yorkshire Pioneer Illustrated War Record: ---
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Private James Pickard BELL
Regiment / Corps / Service Badge: Canadian Infantry
Divisional Sign / Service Insignia: 3rd Canadian Division
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Page from the First World War ‘Book of Remembrance’: Private James Pickard Bell
Source: Canadian Virtual War Memorial (Kindly supplied by Shirley Penman, Clitheroe)
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29 June 1917
BELL - Previously reported missing, now officially reported killed on October 8th 1916, or since, aged 28, James Pickard Bell, Cameron Highlanders, son of William and Barbara Bell, of Flattlands, Aysgarth, Yorkshire.
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