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In search of Donald Simpson Bell VC
IN SEARCH OF DONALD SIMPSON BELL VC On an overcast day in July 1919, soldiers of the 21st Labour Company exhumed several bodies from a field on the south-eastern edge of Contalmaison and transported them one mile west for reburial at Gordon Dump Cemetery. Among the remains was a second lieutenant of the 9th (Service) […]
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