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BELL, Robert
| Service Number: | 1416 |
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| Enlisted: | 13 July 1915, Keswick, South Australia |
| Last Rank: | Corporal |
| Last Unit: | 3rd Light Horse Regiment |
| Born: | Inverness, Scotland, 3 December 1889 |
| Home Town: | Beachport, South Australia |
| Schooling: | Millicent Public School, South Australia |
| Occupation: | Labourer |
| Died: | Adelaide, South Australia, 30 April 1967, aged 77 years, cause of death not yet discovered |
| Cemetery: |
Cheltenham Cemetery, South Australia |
| Memorials: |
World War 1 Service
| 13 Jul 1915: | Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 1416, Keswick, South Australia | |
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| 27 Oct 1915: | Involvement Private, 1416, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '1' embarkation_place: Adelaide embarkation_ship: HMAT Benalla embarkation_ship_number: A24 public_note: '' | |
| 27 Oct 1915: | Embarked Private, 1416, 3rd Light Horse Regiment, HMAT Benalla, Adelaide | |
| 11 Nov 1918: | Involvement Corporal, 1416, 3rd Light Horse Regiment | |
| 19 Aug 1919: | Discharged AIF WW1, Corporal, 1416, 3rd Light Horse Regiment |
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Add my storyBiography contributed by Adelaide Botanic High School
Robert Bell was born on the 3rd of December 1889 to Mary Bell. They lived in Inverness, Scotland but in later life they migrated to the town of Beachport in South Australia. At the time of his enlistment on 13th July 1915, Robert was working as a Laborer, he was 24 years and 5 months of age and single with no prior miliary experience. He comleted training in Adelaide and then embarked 27th October 1915.
His time in the war was consumed by illness and absences, being reported “absent from his duties” on multiple occasions; 5th August 1916 absent form duty while in warden, Egypt, then again absent for four days without leave on the 13th of March 1917. This then resulted in disciplinary action. On the 16th of June 1917, Bell was absent once more for two days without leave and then reassigned to the 2nd Light Horse Training Regiment in Moascar, Egypt. He was admitted to the Abbassia Hospital in Cairo Egypt on the 20th of July 1917 in need of urgent medical care and then later released on the 28th of July 1917, and transferred into the 1st Light Horse Training Regiment at Moascar. He was then hospitalised on serval more occasions, 27th October 1917, 30th October 1917 and 20th March 1918 all due to illness, he was then transferred back to the 3rd lLght Horse Regiment and fought there for the rest of his time in the war.
During his time in the war Robert received two promotions. He began service as a Private, then on the 5th October 1918 he was promoted to a Lance Corporal and then eventually on the 16th May 1919 to a Corporal.
After surviving the war, he returned to Australia on the 13th of April 1918 and resided in his hometown or Beachport, South Australia. In Bell's later life he mooved to a house in Peterhead and in 1920 he married Margaret Frances Bell, together had three children, Kathleen, Margaret and Joan. He then lived for another 50 years after the war and passed away on the 30th April 1967 at the age of 77.
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