Name
Noah Fell
1896
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
10/08/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Serjeant
19867
Royal Welsh Fusiliers
3rd Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 /15 Star, British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
BASRA MEMORIAL
Panel 15
Iraq
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Letchworth Town Memorial, Church of St Nicholas Memorial, Norton
Pre War
Noah Fell was born in 1896 in Langwith, Derbyshire to Joseph Fell and Elizabeth (nee Phillips).
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, Dora (born 1890), Lizzie (Elizabeth, born 1892), Bertha (born 1894), Noah, Joseph (born 1898) Florence (born 1899) and Herbert (born 1901) were living at 214, Chapel Street, Bolsover, Chesterfield,, Derbyshire.
Noah’s father died in 1909 and later Elizabeth Fell married Lot Hardy in 1910.
On the 1911 Census the Fell family were living with stepfather Lot Hardy (coal miner born 1880), Elizabeth (their mother), Lizzie Julia, Noah (pony driver in pit), Florence, Carrie (born 1904), Gwendoline (born 1906) : also recorded were Dora Betts (nee Fell), Robert Marshal Betts(Dora’s husband, railway engine driver, born 1862), Denis Robert Betts (their son, born 1910) and an adopted son Frank Watson pony driver in pit, born 1896). All were living at Avendale Villa, Station Road, Shirebrook, Derbyshire.
Wartime Service
Noah volunteered for the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in Jan 1915 as Private 2112 (later renumbered as 19867). No service record was found for him and he was posted to Mesopotamia in late 1915.(possibly to 8th (Service) Battalion in 13th (Western) Division). This Division was at the attempted Relief of Kut (Feb 1916), in 1917 at Battles of Kut al Amara (Dec 1916-Jan 1917), Hai Salient (25 Jan – 5 Feb 1917),Dahra Bend (9-16 Feb 1917) and Pursuit to Baghdad (7-10 Mar 1917). At some time he was promoted to Acting Serjeant. Noah was on the Army Staff as a Gym Instructor.
He is reported as drowned while swimming in the Tigris River on 10 Aug 1918.
Additional Information
At his enlistment he gave his address as 3, Common View, Letchworth the same address as his brother Joseph. War Gratuity and arrears of £29 0s 3d was paid to his mother Elizabeth.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Dan Hill, Ellen Barnes, Jonty Wild
