Lieutenant-Colonel William Cory Heward Bell DSO DL (25 October 1875 – 6 February 1961)[1] was a British Army officer from Wiltshire who fought in two wars, and then became a Conservative Party politician.
William senior was High Sheriff of Wiltshire in 1912, a director of the Great Western Railway and of Nixon's Navigation Company, and a member of Avon Vale Hunt.
[6] Attached to the 87th battery Royal Field Artillery (RFA), he served in the Second Boer War, during which he was promoted to captain on 16 November 1901.
Following the end of the war he returned to the United Kingdom on the SS Avoca in September 1902,[7] and was stationed at Newcastle with the battery as part of the 12th Brigade division RFA.
[1] He served in France, where he was mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Croix de Guerre.