Dr.
Robert Daniels Bell [Luton News]
Monday
4th February 1918: Luton has been delighted to hear the news
that well-known local doctor Robert Daniels Bell of Dunstable Road, who was
last heard of a year ago while he
was home on leave from Egypt has
been awarded the Military Cross. Captain Bell was serving with the Royal Army
Medical Corps on Christmas Eve when the brigade to which he was attached was
severely bombarded. He was kept hard at work attending to the wounded, while
gas shells burst around him. He took off his gas mask to give better attention
to a bleeding soldier, but was gassed before he could put it on again and
himself became a casualty. He is now at home and progressing excellently. His
brigade took the unusual course of recommending him for immediate honours.
Source:
Luton News, 31st January 1918
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