Five: Sergeant R. Bell, 3rd Dragoon Guards

1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 1st issue, Regular Army (2211082 Sjt. R. Bell. R.A.C.); together with the recipient’s King’s Badge for Loyal Service, extremely fine (5) £70-90

Robert Bell was born in North Shields, Northumberland, on 4 January 1907, and attested originally for the Royal Engineers at Newcastle-upon-Tyne on 14 June 1926. He served with the 3rd (Prince of Wales’s) Dragoon Guards (Carabiniers) during the Second Wold War, and was discharged on 20 July 1944. He died at Wallsend, Northumberland, on 28 June 1979.