Veteran Notes/Bio
1st Australian Horse, Trooper No. 1066
Born 17 November 1878 Launceston, Tasmania.
The Queanbeyan Observer 8 June 1900 noted a H. Bell Trooper No.1066 1st Australian Horse as being from Bungendore and serving in the Boer War along with a number of others. Prior to enlistment he was described as a Bushman.
Henry Bell was invalided home on 19 November 1900. Later on 1 June 1901, he received the Queen’s Medal with two clasps from the Duke of York in Sydney.
He married Isabella M. McGrath in Sydney in 1905. The Electoral Rolls showed that they lived at 11 North Street, Leichhardt, in Sydney in 1917 and later they moved to 101 Day Street, Leichhardt, where they were living when
Henry died in 1927. Isabella died in 1932.