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Personal info

Full name
BELL, Woodrow Wilson
Date of birth
23 November 1914
Age
29
Place of birth
Summersville, Nicholas County, West Virginia
Hometown
Summersville, Nicholas County, West Virginia

Military service

Service number
15090068
Rank
Private First Class
Function
unknown
Unit
36th Armored Infantry Regiment,
3rd Armored Division
Awards
Bronze Star,
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
21 September 1944
Place of death
Aachen, Germany

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Henri-Chapelle
Plot Row Grave
H 7 14

Immediate family

Members
Claude J. Bell (father)
Allie (Mac Million) Bell (mother)
Maude (Hill) Bell (stepmother)
Bennett Bell (brother)
John Bell (brother)
Fred Bell (brother)
Ethyl D. Bell (sister)
Edward Bell (brother)
Clyde Bell (brother)
Claudine Bell (sister)
Burgess (Harris) Bell (wife)
Richard W. Bell (son)

More information

Soldier had never seen his own son, Summersville - Pfc Woodrow Wilson Bell, 29, son of Claude J. Bell, prominent Summersville business man, was killed in action in Germany, September 21, according to a telegram from the War department. The telegram was to Mrs. Burges Bell, wife of the soldier, who survives him along with a ten-months-old son the father had never seen.
Before going into the service he was associated in business with his father here.

Source of information: Peter Schouteten, Richard W. Bell, www.wwiimemorial.com, www.archives.gov, www.ancestry.com Raleigh Register

Photo source: Peter Schouteten