Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Nine: Warrant Officer Class II H. H. Bell, Royal Norfolk Regiment

India General Service 1936-39, 1 clasp, North West Frontier 1936-37 (5771355 Pte. H. H. Bell. R. Norf. R.); 1939-45 Star; Burma Star; Defence and War Medals 1939-45; Korea 1950-53, 1st issue (5771355 W.O. Cl.2. H. H. Bell. R. Norfolk.); U.N. Korea 1950-54, unnamed as issued; General Service 1918-62, 1 clasp, Cyprus (5771355 W.O. Cl.2. H. H. Bell. R. Norfolk.); Army L.S. & G.C., G.VI.R., 2nd issue, Regular Army (5771355 W.O. Cl2. H. H. Bell. R. Norfolk.) mounted for display, minor edge bruising and contact marks, generally good very fine (9) £700-£900

Strong Collection, Dix Noonan Webb, May 2011.

Henry Harrison ‘Dinger’ Bell was born in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, on 16 December 1914. A Labourer by occupation, he enlisted into the Norfolk Regiment on 14 March 1933. With the 1st Battalion he saw service in India from January 1937 to April 1939, firstly on the N.W. Frontier and then, with the onset of war with Japan, in Burma. Appointed Acting Warrant Officer Class II in November 1945, and confirmed in this rank in August 1946, he continued his service post-War, and saw further service in East Africa from April 1948 to June 1950 and the Far East including Korea from August 1951 to October 1954. He was awarded his Long Service and Good Conduct Medal in 1952, and was finally discharged on 13 March 1959. He is mentioned a number of times in the History of the Royal Norfolk Regiment 1951-1969 by Major F. A. Godfrey.

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