| Bell | J W | Major | Is the son of William Bell, of Dumfries, Scotland, late of Grahamstown, Cape Colony, Advocate and Member of the Legislative Assembly He was born at Edinburgh, 1848, and was educated at the High School, Edin. Colonel Bell originally practised as a solicitor at Queenstown, Cape Colony, and is now Master of the Supreme Court of the Transvaal. He is Deputy Chairman of the Transvaal Tender Board, and was a member of the Municipal Commission which sat at Pretoria. He has been a member of the Queenstown Rifle Volunteers since the formation of the corps in 1873, and was in command from 1881 to 1901. He holds the Boer War medal (1877-78), and was granted the Long Service medal in 1898. He holds the Volunteer Officers' Decoration, and. was decorated for services in the Boer War 1899-1901 (mentioned in despatches, medal with three clasps, CMG). He married in 1873 Eliza Jane Bradfield, 4th daughter of Edward Mortimer Turvey, one of the British settlers of 1820.
Source: List of CMG recipients. Various sources | Queenstown Rifle Volunteers |
