Frederick Bell : Western Australia's first Victoria Cross 1901 / Neville Green AM Ph.D. (UWA) Ph.D. (Murdoch).

Collection type	Library
Author	Green, Neville, author.;
Call Number	355.134092 G797f
Document type	Monograph
Pagination	xii, 84 pages : illustrations (chiefly colour), one colour maps, portraits ; 22 cm.
Note	Includes bibliographical references. Frederick WIlliam Bell VC was born in Western Australia in 1875 and died Bristol, England in 1954. In 1899 Australia was six self-governed colonies when Paul Kruger, the President of Transvaal Republic, declared war on Great Britain and the call went outto the Colonies to join Mother England in South Africa. Ferderick Bell was among the first to enlist and was awarded the Victoria Cross at the battle of Brakpan in May 1901. Frederick Bell joined the British Colonial Office in 1905 and served fifteen year s in Africa. During WW1 he fought in the British Army in France and was later the Commander of an army recuperation camp in England where he was promoted to Lieut. Colonel. He was given 'voluntary retirement' from the Colonial Office in 1925 after giving unpopular evidence to a Kenyan Commission of Inguiry. --Back cover.

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