Donald Fraser Bell

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Full Name Donald Fraser Bell
Forename(s) Donald Fraser
Surname Bell
War World War I, 1914-1918
Serial No. 75461
First Known Rank Private
Occupation before Enlistment Shepherd
Next of Kin Mrs H. Bell (wife), Timaru Creek, Hawea Flat, Otago Central, New Zealand
Body on Embarkation New Zealand Expeditionary Force
Embarkation Unit 40th Reinforcements A Company
Embarkation Date 10 July 1918
Place of Embarkation Wellington, New Zealand
Transport HMNZT 107
Vessel Tahiti
Destination Plymouth, England
Nominal Roll Number 86
Page on Nominal Roll 4
Archives NZ source Military personnel file
Sources Used Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force Volume IV. Wellington: Govt. Printer, 1919

Died:
Surname BELL
Forename(s) Donald Fraser
Age 84 Years
Gender Male
Date of Birth Not recorded
Date of Death 19/03/74
Date of Burial 22/03/74
Cemetery Name Hawea
Location Block 4, Plot 1
Burial Type Burial
Occupation
Place of Birth
Notes Remarks: Died at Cromwell Hospital. Never married. Also burial and headstone of brother Dougald BELL on same site. Source: Hawea Cemetery Trust Death Notice: BELL, Donald Fraser (late of Hawea Flat) - On March 19, 1974 at Cromwell Hospital, loved brother of Dougal (Hawea), Frances (Mrs TAYLOR, Invercargill) Jess (Mrs BRUMBY, Winton) John (Blenheim), Margaret (Mrs BRUMBY Invercargill) and the late Cissie, Jean, Mary and Duncan, and loved uncle of Jessie (Mrs Reg MUIR Hawea Flat); in his eighty-fifth year. The funeral will leave the Presbyterian Church Hawea Flat after a service, commencing at 2pm on Friday March 22 for the Hawea Flat Cemetery. Cromwell & Southern Lakes Funeral Services Ltd, funeral directors, Cromwell.

Donald married Helen Glendinning on 6 Dec 1916 in Cromwell, Central Otago, New Zealand. Helen was born in 1885; and died. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]