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War Service<\/h2>\n
Paddy enrolled for the AIF in February 1915, and travelled south to Blackboy Hill Camp. He was assigned to the 28th Battalion, B Company which left for Alexandria aboard the Ascanius<\/em> on the 29th June 1915. The battalion was shipped to Gallipoli to join the Mediterranean Expeditionary Forces in September. Paddy received a commission in November and was promoted to a 2nd Lieutenant. The battalion returned to Alexandria after the Gallipoli evacuation in January. In March 1916 the battalion was on the move once again, this time to Marseilles to join the British Expeditionary Forces. In June Paddy received a second promotion to Lieutenant.<\/p>\n In July 1916 the 28th Battalion, as part of the 2nd Division was involved in a series of attacks aimed at the capture of key German positions and the wearing down of the enemy. By the 23rd July the 1st & 2nd Division had been successful in capturing the Pozi\u00e8res village despite almost continuous artillery fire and repeated German counter-attacks. A further push to take Pozi\u00e8res heights was planned for the 29th July but the Germans were ready and the attack failed at a cost of 3,500 Australian casualties, including six men from Broome.<\/p>\n [su_quote] We made a charge on the night of Friday July 28th soon after midnight. The various companies went over in a wave. The Germans opened tremendous fire on us with artillery trench mortar, machine gun and every conceivable form of weapon. The men were falling in all directions. [\/su_quote]<\/em><\/p>\n Paddy’s popularity among his comrades is evident in his Red Cross Reports.<\/p>\n [su_quote cite=”Baker #1509, Red Cross Report”]At Pozieres he was killed by a shell just at the barbed wire of German trenches, we all got caught there, the ground was all cut about after we bombarded the ground for four days – he was our officer – a bonzer officer – one of the best.[\/su_quote]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n [su_quote cite=”Mills #472, Red Cross Report”]I was told by men near that Lieut. Bell was killed going over the top. All knew he was killed, all commenting on his death because he was such a nice Lieutenant. Very popular with the men – he had been promoted by the ranks[\/su_quote]<\/em><\/p>\n [su_expand more_text=”Show more” less_text=”Show less” height=”0″ link_color=”#e5be5e” link_align=”center”]<\/p>\n Date of Enlistment: 25\/02\/1915<\/p>\n Birthplace: [\/su_expand]<\/p>\n [su_carousel source=”media: 1017,1184,1185,1186,1026″ link=”lightbox” target=”blank” width=”640″ height=”60″ title=”no”]<\/p>\n View Patrick Bell at the National Archives of Australia<\/a> About Paddy Bell Paddy Bell was born in Bailisborough, Cavan, Ireland, the son of James and Mary Eleanor Clark Bell. Paddy served in the Irish Fusiliers before emigrating to Australia. Broome Connection Paddy appears in Broome’s records as a labourer on the electoral roll from … Continue reading BELL Patrick Thomas Clark (Paddy)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":377,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-258","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2711,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/258\/revisions\/2711"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/broomeanzacs.broomemuseum.org.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Pozi\u00e8res : The Battle of the Somme<\/h2>\n
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<\/p>\nEnlistment Details<\/h2>\n
\nNext of kin:
\nPlace of Enlistment: Blackboy Hill Camp
\nOccupation: Seaman
\nAge at Enlistment: 25
\nService Number: 787
\nUnit: 28th Battalion, B Company
\nRank: Lieutenant
\nFate: Killed in Action
\nPlace of Death: Pozieres, France
\nDate of Death: 29\/07\/1916
\nCemetery or Memorial Details: Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Colincamps
\nPlace of Association: Bayswater WA (Wife’s address)<\/p>\nNewspaper Articles<\/h2>\n
Other Online Resources<\/h2>\n
\nView Patrick Bell at the Australian War Memorial<\/a>
\nView Australian Red Cross Wounded & Missing Files<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"