{"id":6725,"date":"2025-04-14T09:04:31","date_gmt":"2025-04-14T08:04:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/?p=6725"},"modified":"2025-04-14T09:04:31","modified_gmt":"2025-04-14T08:04:31","slug":"bell-p-w-pte-10th-kings-liverpool-regiment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/2025\/04\/14\/bell-p-w-pte-10th-kings-liverpool-regiment\/","title":{"rendered":"Bell P W Pte 10th King&#8217;s Liverpool Regiment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6726\" style=\"width: 252px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bell-P-W-Pte-10th-KLR-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6726\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6726\" src=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bell-P-W-Pte-10th-KLR-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5-242x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bell-P-W-Pte-10th-KLR-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5-242x300.jpg 242w, https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Bell-P-W-Pte-10th-KLR-De-Ruvignys-Roll-Of-Honour-Vol-5.jpg 548w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6726\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bell P W Pte 10th King&#8217;s Liverpool Regiment<\/p><\/div>\n<p>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 &amp; 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 Armenti\u00e8res. His Commanding Officer wrote: &#8220;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.&#8221; He m. at Maidstone, Easter Saturday, 1916, Lilian Knight, dau. of (-) Johnson; s.p.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source : De Ruvigny&#8217;s Roll Of Honour Vol 5<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 &amp; Roberts, Liverpool; enlisted 30 March, 1916; served with the Expeditionary [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[82],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kings-liverpool-regiment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6725"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6727,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6725\/revisions\/6727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww1photos.com\/firstworldwarsoldiers\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}