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Harrogate’s home-grown hero
Donald Simpson Bell VC will be remembered at a service in France later this month, 10 years after a memorial was dedicated to him near where he was killed during World War One.
Donald Bell grew up in Harrogate; where he attended Harrogate Grammar School and later in life went on to teach in the town. During his time teaching he played amateur football for Crystal Palace, Bishop Auckland and Newcastle United. In April 1913 he left teaching behind and turned professional and started playing for Bradford.
But by the end of 1913 the shadow of war was looming so with the like many young, fit men at the time Bell joined the army. In November, 1913 Bell signed up to the 9th Battalion Yorkshire regiment, also known as The Green Howards.
Bell later became the first professional footballer to earn the Victoria Cross, the highest honour in the British and commonwealth armies, after his bravery at the battle of the Somme in 1916.
On the 5th of July Bell and the other members of his regiment were pinned down by a German machine gun near the town of La Boiselle. Bell charged out into open ground, throwing grenades at the machine gun nest, he singlehandedly captured the machine gun nest and saved the rest of his regiment. The same bravery lead to Bell’s death 5 days later in a similar situation.
He was killed at Contalmaison which became know as Bell’s Redoubt, and in 2000 became the location for a memorial, which was organised by the Friends of the Green Howards Museum. The friends of the museum, the Professional Footballers’ organisation and relatives of Donald Bell will return to Bell’s Redoubt in 2 weeks, 10 years after the memorial was erected. They will be joined by Buglers from the Yorkshire Corps of Drums and Reverend Clive Artley, who will lead a wreath laying ceremony.
For more information on Bell visit our website.

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Harrogate’s home-grown hero
Donald Simpson Bell VC will be remembered at a service in France later this month, 10 years after a memorial was dedicated to him near where he was killed during World War One.
Donald Bell grew up in Harrogate and later in life went on to teach in the town. In November, 1913 Bell signed up to the 9th Battalion Yorkshire regiment, also known as The Green Howards.
On the 5th of July Bell and the other members of his regiment were pinned down by a German machine gun near the town of La Boiselle. Bell singlehandedly captured the machine gun nest and saved the rest of his regiment. The same bravery lead to Bell’s death 5 days later in a similar situation.
He was killed at Contalmaison which became known as Bell’s Redoubt, and in 2000 became the location for a memorial. The organisers and relatives of Donald Bell will return to Bell’s Redoubt in 2 weeks, 10 years after the memorial was erected. They will be joined by Buglers from the Yorkshire Corps of Drums and Reverend Clive Artley, who will lead a wreath laying ceremony.
For more information on Bell visit our website.