Bell Joseph Russell Cpl 4456672
Personnel Entry
Name Bell Joseph Russell
Army number 4456672
Rank Cpl
Decorations MiD
Date of birth Born County Durham, probably 1914/15.
Age 28
Unit Enlisted in The Durham Light Infantry, T, no enlistment date - but probably Spring 1939. Posted 6th Battalion, The Durham Light Infantry. Posted 10th Bn DLI, probably 1st September 1939. Served BEF. Prisoner of War - notified 12/7/1940. DIED as Prisoner of War - shot by Germans while attempting to escape from PoW Camp. (Not recorded in Official PoW volume).
Company/Battery
Platoon or other sub-unit
Task or role
Joined Brigade 1/9/1939.
Promotions
Wounded
Prisoner of War 12/7/40
Died/Killed in action 24-Jul-43
Home address Resident of County Durham. Son of William Moore and Florence Hilda Bell, Manor Road, Evenwood. Buried Grave 5. A. 11. Malbork Commonwealth War Cemetery.
Source table 10DLI
The DLI Roll of Honour shows Cpl Bell - in error - as being with 1st Battalion DLI. His place of death in the War Office list of WW2 deaths is shown as France and Belgium - apparently a convention as that is where he was taken prisoner - whereas he was actually killed in Northern Poland.
