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Murray Richard Bell

In memory of:

Warrant Officer Murray Richard Bell

May 2, 1944

Military Service


Service Number:

R/157097

Age:

21

Force:

Air Force

Unit:

Royal Canadian Air Force

Division:

218 (R.A.F.) Sqdn

Additional Information


Born:

February 19, 1923
Port Arthur, Ontario

Enlistment:

February 26, 1942
Port Arthur, Ontario

Son of Archibald Willoughby and Jeanne Ellen (nee Rome) Bell, of Port Arthur, Ontario.

Commemorated on Page 247 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance. Request a copy of this page. Download high resolution copy of this page.

Burial Information


Cemetery:

POIX-DE-PICARDIE CHURCHYARD
Somme, France

Grave Reference:

Row A. Coll. grave 12-14.

Location:

Poix is a small town 28 kilometres south-west of Amiens. The 16th century church with its surrounding churchyard is on the Amiens-Rouen road, about 200 metres from the centre of the town and the British plot is opposite the west door of the church.

Information courtesy of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission.

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  • Memorial– Father J P Lardie's comments as inscribed on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Warrant Officer Murray Richard Bell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Memorial– Warrant Officer Murray Richard Bell is also commemorated on the Bomber Command Memorial Wall in Nanton, AB … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
  • Id Card– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of MURRAY RICHARD BELL– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of MURRAY RICHARD BELL– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Crash Report– Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me
  • Photo of Murray Bell– W.O. Murray Bell, RCAF, reported missing May 1944 - later reported killed in May 1944.
  Photo courtesy of Hillcrest High School - "Stairway of Honour" project.  Eighty-four large portraits of students from the Second World War line both sides of the 55 stairs leading up to the school's auditorium. Most of the portraits have the rank and year of death of the student. Some portraits explain how the soldier died, but many were MIA and presumed dead. Each year, teachers from the grade 10 Canadian History course take their students to the stairway around November 11th to complete a project that deals directly with the pictures on the Stairway of Honour.

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