Philip Oswald Bell who worked for the United Legal Indemnity Insurance Society Ltd in Manchester as a member of the company's engineering staff. He served as a Driver /Signaller in the Royal Field Artillery 149th (County Palatine) Brigade and was posted to France in 1915.

He was asleep in his dugout when a shell came through the roof and exploded, killing him instantly. He was 20.

His Captain wrote of him: "he was one of the best men in the battery, always cheerful, no matter how trying the conditions, and ever anxious for work."

Anna Stone