Service Details
Name:
 BELL
Given Name:
 WILLIAM DOUGLAS
Initials:
 W D
Service No:
 542670V
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 9 Sqdn.
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Date of Death:
 1944-10-25
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Age:
 23
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Supermarine Spitfire Mk VC #EF694, crashed in sea off Alexandria. Lt Bell had been sent up at night as the target for a radar guided search light to be tested upon
Additional
Information:
Son of Henry Douglas Bell and Mary Agnes Bell, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Egypt
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Cemetery:
 ALEXANDRIA (CHATBY) MILITARY AND WAR MEMORIAL CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 O. 87.

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