John Henry Edward BELL

Service Number:	2196
Enlisted:	16 September 1915, Place of Enlistment, Enoggera, Queensland.
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	26th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Braidwood, New South Wales, Australia, 12 May 1886
Home Town:	Lismore, Lismore Municipality, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Railway Shunter
Died:	Killed in Action, France, 5 August 1916, aged 30 years
Cemetery:	No known grave - "Known Unto God" Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux, Picardie, France
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Haymarket NSW Government Railway and Tramway Honour Board, Villers-Bretonneux Memorial (Australian National Memorial - France)

World War 1 Service

16 Sep 1915:	Enlisted AIF WW1, Private, 2196, 26th Infantry Battalion, Place of Enlistment, Enoggera, Queensland.
20 Sep 1915:	Involvement Private, 2196, 26th Infantry Battalion, Battle for Pozières , --- :embarkation_roll: roll_number: '15' embarkation_place: Brisbane embarkation_ship: HMAT Armadale embarkation_ship_number: A26 public_note: ''
20 Sep 1915:	Embarked Private, 2196, 26th Infantry Battalion, HMAT Armadale, Brisbane

Great Sydney Central Station Honour Board

John Henry Edward BELL, (Service Number 2196) was born on 12 May 1886 near Braidwood. He had commenced working with the NSW Railways in January 1913 as a gatekeeper in the Newcastle district and by 1915 had progressed to be a 3rd class shunter at Lismore. He enlisted on the day after Anzac Day at Enoggera in Queensland, as it was probably the nearest enlistment depot.
He left Australia embarked on HMAT ‘Armadale’ in September and disembarked at Alexandria but then moved through Marseilles to France where he was killed in action on 5 August 1916. He has no known grave but is commemorated on the Australian National Memorial at Villers-Bretonneux.
(NAA B2455-3008821)

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