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Name: BELL, David Riddall
Nee: son of Victor Samuel Alexander Bell
Birth Date: 28 July 1911 Bedford
Death Date: 1988
Profession: Farmer, Sikinwa Estate, Kitale Box 60
Area: Kitale
Married: In Salisbury, Rhodesia 17 June 1946 Julia Margaret Frankau b. 19 July 1912 Marandellas, S. Rhodesia, d. 2 Dec 1961 Kitale (prev. m. to Arthur Leonard Bagshawe 1906-1944 killed in action Burma)
Children: stepdau. Clemency Mary (Jarvis) (1936 N. Rhodesia); Antonia (1938 N. Rhodesia); Alexander (1947-2003); Richard (1949-1950); Victoria (Kerfoot) (1950); Mary (1952-1960/1)
Book Reference: Sitrep 2
General Information:
Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Trans Nzoia Voters List
One of the original '500' men in the Kenya Regt. in 1937. (KR 408).
Gazette 16 May 1969 mother's probate
Antony Jarvis (grandson) My mother, Clemency Mary Jarvis, née Bagshawe, was the eldest daughter of Arthur Leonard Bagshawe and Julia Bagshawe, née Frankau. ALB was killed in WWII whilst fighting in Burma. Julia Bagshawe then married David Riddall Bell after the war. She, my mother and her sister, Antonia Bagshawe all moved to live in Sikinwa, Mount Elgon, Kenya following the marriage to David. After Julia's death David did not remarry, and lived with his daughter Vicky in Western Australia from about 1981 to his death.