Bombardier Joseph Malcolm Bell
Service Number: 700158
"B" Bty. 210th Bde. Royal Field Artillery
Died of Gas Poisoning 8th October 1917, aged 22
Son of Joseph & Hilda Bell, Canning Street, Burnley
From the Burnley Express dated 12th Oct 1917: TERRITORIAL GASSED Burnley Man's Fate after Three Years.
Official news has been received by the parents at 49, Canning Street, Burnley of the death, on October 8th, from gas poisoning, of Bombardier (700158) Joseph Malcolm Bell, of the Burnley Territorial Royal Field Artillery. This is the second Burnley Territorial Artillery man to be fatally gassed, the other being Thomas Liversidge, whose Death we reported last Saturday. Bombardier Bell who was aged 22 years and single had been in the Burnley Territorial Artillery almost five years and was drafted out to Egypt on September 9, 1914. He served in the Dardanelles and later spent a further long spell in Egypt before being transferred to the Western Front. Last April he had his first and only leave since the war began. He formerly worked at Messrs’ Greenhalghs' Dyeworks, and attended St. John's R.C. Church, Ivy Street.
Buried in St Sever Cemetery Extension, Rouen, France: Grave Ref P. III. D. 8 A.