Ernest Gordon Bell

Signalman · #296354 · HQ Patrol

What this roll records

Deeper background (2026): commissioned from the ranks — “No. 1518301 Ernest Gordon Bell” granted an emergency commission as 2nd Lieutenant (officer number 296354), The London Gazette supp. 36247, p.5018, 12 Nov 1943. Source: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/36247/supplement/5018

Checked CWGC 28 Jul 2026 by service number: no casualty record (survived the war).

Dodecanese operations, 1943: prisoner of war 16 Nov 1943. Source: Roll of British & Rhodesian PoW and KIA (Appendix V), compiled by Jim Patch, LRDG (UK) Association. Appendix V lists as 2/Lt E.G. Bell, SN 296354.

Service number corrected to #296354 per O’Carroll (Appendix V); this Roll previously recorded #1518301.

Aegean/Dodecanese operations, 1943: listed as Second Lieutenant Bell, service no. 296354; taken prisoner of war, 16 Nov 1943. Source: Brendan O’Carroll, ‘The Long Range Desert Group in the Aegean’ (Appendix V, Roll of British & Rhodesian PoW and KIA).

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