Distinguished Service Order for Midland Men: Among the Midland officers who have been awarded the Distinguished Service Order, their names being published in the Honours “Gazette” of yesterday, are Captain (A./-Lt.-Col) W. C. C. Gell, M.C, R. War. Regt., the younger son of Mr. W. J. Gell, of Cora Lynn, Warwick Road, Solihull. He was educated at Edgbaston Preparatory School, Malvern College, and Cambridge. 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.
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GRO0738 Devonport: Richard Alfred Pinsent: 1852 – 1948