M.B.776 Chief Motor Mechanic Herbert Bell.
The Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve [Motor Boat Reserve]
H.M. Motor Lighter 154.
He was husband to Elsie and the son of John and Ann Bell of Mill Gate, Thirsk in Yorkshire.
His brother Jack also served and fell.
His occupation pre war was as apprentice to his father as a mechanic in their Motorcycle trade.
Death.
Herbert Bell, aged about 24, married, an Engineer in His Majesty's Motor Launch No. 154, late of Kingstown, Co. Dublin, died on 29 July 1918, in the River Boyne, Drogheda.
The cause of death was recorded as Heart Failure while bathing in the River Boyne.
Accident al death, Inquest held on 30 July 1918.
His brother
Chief Motor Mechanic Jack Bell
also died in World War 1.
His name is included in
Deansgrange Cemetery War Memorial
The Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve [Motor Boat Reserve]
H.M. Motor Lighter 154.
He was husband to Elsie and the son of John and Ann Bell of Mill Gate, Thirsk in Yorkshire.
His brother Jack also served and fell.
His occupation pre war was as apprentice to his father as a mechanic in their Motorcycle trade.
Death.
Herbert Bell, aged about 24, married, an Engineer in His Majesty's Motor Launch No. 154, late of Kingstown, Co. Dublin, died on 29 July 1918, in the River Boyne, Drogheda.
The cause of death was recorded as Heart Failure while bathing in the River Boyne.
Accident al death, Inquest held on 30 July 1918.
His brother
Chief Motor Mechanic Jack Bell
also died in World War 1.
His name is included in
Deansgrange Cemetery War Memorial
M.B.776 Chief Motor Mechanic Herbert Bell.
The Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve [Motor Boat Reserve]
H.M. Motor Lighter 154.
He was husband to Elsie and the son of John and Ann Bell of Mill Gate, Thirsk in Yorkshire.
His brother Jack also served and fell.
His occupation pre war was as apprentice to his father as a mechanic in their Motorcycle trade.
Death.
Herbert Bell, aged about 24, married, an Engineer in His Majesty's Motor Launch No. 154, late of Kingstown, Co. Dublin, died on 29 July 1918, in the River Boyne, Drogheda.
The cause of death was recorded as Heart Failure while bathing in the River Boyne.
Accident al death, Inquest held on 30 July 1918.
His brother
Chief Motor Mechanic Jack Bell
also died in World War 1.
His name is included in
Deansgrange Cemetery War Memorial
The Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve [Motor Boat Reserve]
H.M. Motor Lighter 154.
He was husband to Elsie and the son of John and Ann Bell of Mill Gate, Thirsk in Yorkshire.
His brother Jack also served and fell.
His occupation pre war was as apprentice to his father as a mechanic in their Motorcycle trade.
Death.
Herbert Bell, aged about 24, married, an Engineer in His Majesty's Motor Launch No. 154, late of Kingstown, Co. Dublin, died on 29 July 1918, in the River Boyne, Drogheda.
The cause of death was recorded as Heart Failure while bathing in the River Boyne.
Accident al death, Inquest held on 30 July 1918.
His brother
Chief Motor Mechanic Jack Bell
also died in World War 1.
His name is included in
Deansgrange Cemetery War Memorial
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