Date of death:

March 2nd, 1945

Buried on:

Commonwealth War Cemetery Uden
Plot: 2. Row: F. Grave: 2.

Service number:

249248

Nationality:

British

Lieutenant Alfred James Steward Bell
4th Bn The Northamptonshire Regt.
He drowned in the river during a reconnaissance patrol from the liberated west bank to the still-occupied east bank of the Maas River, near Lomm (Arcen-Velden), during the night of March 1-2, 1945.
He washed up on the banks of the Maas River and was buried in a field grave in Opheusden between the Rijnbanddijk and Lindelaan, together with an unknown person. From this field grave, he was buried as an unknown person at the British War Cemetery in Uden on August 14, 1946. He was identified on June 8, 1982, and given a headstone with his name. Three other soldiers perished with him; they are buried in the British war cemeteries in Nijmegen and Venray.

Alfred James Steward Bell was married to Doris K. Bell.

Archive A. Verbakel / Heemkundekring Uden

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