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Flying Officer JOHN SWIFT BELL

Service Number: 90051
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force (Auxiliary Air Force)

616 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 30 August 1940

Age 23 years old

Buried or commemorated at

LINCOLN (EASTGATE) (OR ST. PETER'S) CEMETERY

Sec. A. Grave 483.

United Kingdom

Headstone

Photographer: Peter Jacobs

  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Awards Mentioned in Despatches
  • Additional Info Son of Maj. Herbert Alfred Bell and Ethel Mary Bell, of Lincoln. B.A. (Cantab.).
  • Personal Inscription GREATER GLORY HATH NO MAN. "NEVER WAS SO MUCH OWED. BY SO MANY TO SO FEW"
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