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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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THE STORY OF DONALD SIMPSON BELL VC When the British Army launched its great Somme offensive in the summer of 1916, few people could have envisaged the devastation battle would bring. The opening day alone saw British casualties of almost 60,000 and by the time the slaughter had ground to a bloody halt in the […]
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