Lieutenant-Colonel George Henry Bell was born in April 1869, the elder son of Surgeon Major George Coates Bell (see Lot 567), and originally commissioned into the King's Own Scottish Borderers as a 2nd Lieutenant in August 1888. Immediately seeing active service in Egypt at the Battle of Gemaizah, he was advanced to Lieutenant in December 1890 and to Captain in the Indian Army in August 1899. He subsequently witnessed further action on the North West Frontier in the Waziristan operations of 1901-02, and afterwards in Africa in the Somaliland operations of 1903-04, when he was employed as a Field Intelligence Officer and present at the action at Jidballi. Advanced to Major in August 1906, and latterly to Lieutenant-Colonel, Bell died on 3.9.1916, while attached to the 9/Bhopal Infantry. He is commemorated on the Karachi Memorial, Pakistan.