Bell P W Pte 10th King’s Liverpool Regiment
BELL, PERCY WATTS, Private, No. 357640, 2/10th (Territorial) Battn. (Scottish) The Liverpool Regt., 6th s. of George Bell, of 151, Laird Street, Birkenhead, Joiner; b. Birkenhead, 5 Aug. 1892; educ. at Laird Street School there was a Clerk in the employ of Messrs. Matthew & Roberts, Liverpool; enlisted 30 March, 1916; served with the Expeditionary Force in France and Flanders from Feb. 1917, and was killed in action 21 Aug. following, by a shell in his dug-out. Buried in Erquingham Churchyard, near Armentières. His Commanding Officer wrote: “He was killed whilst entering his dug-out with another, who has since died of wounds, by a shell that dropped right in the doorway, and was killed outright; that is some brief and slight consolation to you that he felt nothing. As a soldier he was splendid, and very popular with all his comrades, and we shall feel his loss keenly. As his platoon commander I might tell you he was always ready and willing to do his duty, whatever task was set him.” He m. at Maidstone, Easter Saturday, 1916, Lilian Knight, dau. of (-) Johnson; s.p.
Source : De Ruvigny’s Roll Of Honour Vol 5