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Alan Thomas Bell served with The 9th (Essex) Parachute Battalion.Captain Bell jumped on Operation Overlord into Normandy on 6 June 1944.

He was wounded in action with a gunshot wound to the left thigh in late June 1944. Capt Bell was taken as a Prisoner of War to Stalag 221 (Rennes Military Hospital).

After repatriation he served in Palestine.

Acting Captain Alan Bell

Service History

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Palestine
Arab intransigence over the surge of Jewish immigration that followed the Holocaust in Europe led to the forming of extreme d...

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Normandy (Operation Overlord)
Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of occupied Europe commonly known as D-Day, saw the 6th Airborne Division in action f...
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