Captain William Charles Coleman Gell, Royal Warwickshire Regiment, awarded the Military Cross, is the son of Mr. W. J. Gell, of Solihull. He was educated at Malvern College, and at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. At the conclusion of his university career, he was articled to Mr. R. A. Pinsent, of Messrs. Pinsent and Co., Birmingham, and subsequently went to London. where he was engaged when war broke out. He has held a commission in the Territorial Force for some years. He was made captain in July 1915, being further promoted to the rank of major in October of last year. His brother, Lieutenant Gell, was in Vancouver at the time war broke out, but returned to this country in order to join the army and is with the Royal Engineers in the Salonika force.
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948