Grace Laughton Bell

One of their sons was Major Hubert Graham Bell, member of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire.

[1] Between 1915 and 1919 she served in the Women's Forestry Corps as a travelling officer for Wales and the West of England.

At the outbreak of the Second World War, she began working for the Women's Royal Naval Service, where she served from 1939 to 1946.

[1] Grace and her sister Vera Laughton Mathews were among the first officers of the Women's Royal Naval Service.

[2][3] Grace Laughton Bell was awarded the title of Commander of the Order of the British Empire at the end of the Second World War.

The Commander-in-Chief of Western Approaches, Admiral Sir Max K. Horton, with his naval officers. In the front row, Grace Laughton Bell.