Finding aid to the Bell Family Papers
Summary information
Reference code:
M 780
Title:
Bell Family Papers
Dates:
1865-1977
Creator: Bell family
Abstract:
Personal papers of several members of the Bell family; predominantly the papers of Bertram Charles Bell, many of which relate to his service in World War I. The Bell family owned Coochin Coochin Station near Boonah. Major Bell and his wife operated Aroo station near Boonah.
Extent and medium: 0.54 linear metres
Location: Boxes 5726 to 5728.The following are oversized: 5724 O/S (A3), 5729 O/S (A3) (access copies), 5730 O/S to 5733 O/S
Repository: Heritage Collections
State Library of Queensland
Biographical / Administrative history
Biographical history
Bertram (Bert) Charles Bell was born at Coochin Coochin Station, near Boonah on 5 April 1893, the son of James Thomas Marsh Bell and his wife Gertrude Augusta Bell, nee Norton. Bell was educated at Toowoomba Grammar School. In 1914 he visited the United Kingdom with his sister Una Bell. When World War I broke out he enlisted to take the first 'Queensland' motor ambulance to Boulogne, France and served as an ambulance driver for six months. While in France, Bell was inspired to become a pilot with the Royal Naval Air Service (R.N.A.S.) and returned to England in February 1915 to take private flying lessons. He obtained his pilot's license (aviator's certificate) on 28 June 1915 but had already been commissioned as a probationary flight sub-lieutenant on 2 May 1915.
First serving with No. 1 squadron for 18 months he was promoted to flight lieutenant in April 1916 and was subsequently transferred to No. 3 Squadron. In March 1917 he was promoted to Flight Commander and from April 1917 until a few months after the war was commanding officer of No. 10 Squadron, redesignated No. 210 Squadron on the formation of the Royal Air Force (R.A.F.) in April 1918. Bell was at that time also promoted to the rank of major. While on active service Bell received the Distinguished Service Cross (DSC) and a Distinguished Service Order (DSO). In March 1919, after refusing the offer of a permanent commission in the R.A.F. Bell returned home to manage Coochin Coochin Station.
He married Adeline Grace Barnes on 24 April 1926. As Coochin Coochin Station was subdivided into agricultural farms, Bell and his wife settled at Aroo (part of the original station) and made their farm into one of the most modern in Australia. At the onset of World War II Bell tried to enlist but was advised by Governor Leslie Wilson that it would be "most undesirable for [him] to give up his work".. and that "now [he is] doing what is essential service to the country". Deeply disturbed by world events, Bell suffered a breakdown in June 1941 and died on 15 June of that year. Bert Bell's brother Victor Bell also served as a major in the Royal Air Force during World War I. He commanded No. 80 Squadron in 1918 - 1919. Another brother, Ernest Bell, was a member of the Legislative Assembly of Queensland. The three sisters Una, Aileen and Enid Bell lived together at Coochin Coochin Station and remained unmarried.
Content and structure
Scope and content
This collection contains the personal papers of several members of the Bell family, with most papers being those of Bertram Charles Bell. These include letters written by him to his family at Coochin Coochin from boarding school at Toowoomba and while on active war service in Europe from 1914 to 1919. Also contained are a transcript of Bell's diary or diaries kept during the war years, as well as typescripts of a history of No. 210 Squadron (of which Bell was commanding officer) and a typescript of Bell's personal memoirs. Further items in this collection are Bell's pilot license, messages and signals received by Bell from superior and fellow officers and four photographic albums labelled "On active service". The collection also contains correspondence addressed to all other family members, manuscript stories by Enid Bell, as well as copies of newspaper cuttings relating to the family.
System of arrangement
Arranged into 11 series
Conditions of access and use
Conditions governing access
Unrestricted access.
Conditions governing reproduction
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Preferred citation
M 780, Bell Family Papers, John Oxley Library, State Library of Queensland, Australia.
Allied materials
Existence and location of copies
Digital copies available for selected items.
Copies of photograph albums (former accession 95-8-1) at GS-36. Selection of digital images M780-0035-0001 to M780-0035-0036.
Finding aids
A series and item list is available
Subjects
personal papers
Series
Series: Manuscripts,
M 780
Finding aids :
An item list is available
Item: Manuscript, Undated,
M 780/1
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
Short piece of imaginary prose by Bertram Charles Bell, captioned on the reverse "Bert's first composition", probably written around 1903.
Item: Manuscript, Undated,
M 780/6
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
Short "Account of seaplane raid over Dover on his way over" by Bertram Charles Bell.
Item: Biography, Undated,
M 780/29
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Short biography of Bertram Charles Bell, beginning with an excerpt from his memoirs (2 pages).
Item: Biographies, Undated,
M 780/30
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
List of names and short biographical details of Australian members of the R.A.F., including Bertram Charles Bell.
Item: List of wedding presents received by Pauline and Ernest Bell., Aug 1910,
M 780/59
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
List of wedding presents received by Pauline and Ernest Bell.
Item: Kingfisher blue, Undated,
M 780/63
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
"Kingfisher blue". Manuscript (pp. 1 - 25 and 42 - 45) of a short story.
Item: Billy and Bundi, Undated,
M 780/65
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
"Billy and Bundi". 26-page manuscript of a short story.
Item: Stories from long ago. The bunyip, Undated,
M 780/66
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
"Stories from long ago. The bunyip". Fragment of a manuscript short story.
Item: Manuscript, Undated,
M 780/67
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728. The following is oversized: 5724 O/S (A3)
Scope and content :
Fragments of an untitled manuscript short story (85 pp.). The central character is Jean Craig.
Item: Manuscript, Undated,
M 780/69
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Fragments of an untitled manuscript short story (3 pp.). The central character is Capt Jack.
Item: Manuscript, Undated,
M 780/75
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
"A visit in a strange chariot. By 'B. S.'. To mother.". 9-page manuscript allegory on the concept of "care". With a thick-paper wrapper decorated with ruled borders and a drawing of a winged angel and two horses in harness.
Item: Manuscript, Undated,
M 780/76
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
"The power to serve or The life and family history of Gertrude Augusta Bell". Typescripts, consisting of the following parts: (1): Bound typescript, containing preface (which appears to be a transcript of a funeral speech), foreword, Book 1: The ancestors, consisting of "The Blaxlands" (23 pp.), "The Walkers" (35 pp.) and "The Norton Family" (13 pp.); (2): 8-page typescript in loose sheets relating to the Archibald Bell family; (3): Typescript in loose sheets (pp. 29 - 325 with gaps) covering Gertrude Bell's life from childhood to old age; (4): Four fragments of "The power to serve", typescripts in loose sheets; (5): Bound typescript, containing chapter 15: "Home after the war" and chapter 16: "A royal visit", relating the Prince Edward's three-day stay at Coochin Coochin in 1920, and chapter 17 to 24 "The closing years".
Item: Manuscript, Undated,
M 780/81
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
"A reflection after reading a certain chapter in 'The Glass of Fashion'". Signed M.C.H.
Series: Correspondence,
M 780
Finding aids :
An item list is available
Item: Letters (correspondence), 1903-1904,
M 780/2
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5726. The following is oversized: 5729 O/S (A3)
Scope and content :
Six letters from Bertram Charles Bell to his brother Victor Douglas Bell (Vic), who was then presumably boarding at Toowoomba Grammar School. The letters are mostly undated, but appear to have been written between 1903 and 1904.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 17 Feb 1908 - 9 Nov 1908,
M 780/3
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5726. The following is oversized: 5729 O/S (A3)
Scope and content :
Two letters from Bertram Charles Bell to his mother Gertrude Bell, written while Bell was boarding at Toowoomba Grammar School.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 24 Jul 1914 - 13 Dec 1914,
M 780/7
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Boxes 5726. The following are oversized: 5724 O/S (A3), 5729 O/S (A3)
Scope and content :
26 letters by Bertram Charles Bell addressed to his family at Coochin Coochin, Boonah.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 8 Jan 1915 - 31 Dec 1915,
M 780/8
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5726. The following are oversized: 5724 O/S (A3), 5729 O/S (A3)
Scope and content :
59 letters by Bertram Charles Bell addressed to his family at Coochin Coochin, Boonah and at London.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 5 Jan 1916 - 31 Dec 1916,
M 780/9
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5726. The following is oversized: 5729 O/S (A3)
Scope and content :
48 letters by Bertram Charles Bell addressed to his family at Coochin Coochin, Boonah and at London.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 6 Jan 1917 - 29 Dec 1917,
M 780/10
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5726. The following is oversized: 5729 O/S (A3)
Scope and content :
41 letters by Bertram Charles Bell addressed to his family at Coochin Coochin, Boonah and at London.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 2 Jan 1918 - 27 Dec 1918,
M 780/11
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5726. The following is oversized: 5729 O/S (A3)
Scope and content :
50 letters by Bertram Charles Bell addressed to his family at Coochin Coochin, Boonah and at London.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 4 Jan 1919 - Mar 1919,
M 780/12
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5726. The following is oversized: 5729 O/S (A3)
Scope and content :
12 letters by Bertram Charles Bell addressed to his family at Coochin Coochin, Boonah and at London.
Item: Correspondence, 29 Apr 1914 - 18 Nov 1918,
M 780/24
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
41 messages, signals and letters received by Bertram Charles Bell from superior and fellow officers while on active service with the R.N.A.S and the R.A.F.
Item: Correspondence, 21 Oct 1914,
M 780/26
Creator: Bell family
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Telegram to Bertram Charles Bell from his family at Coochin Coochin, Boonah.
Item: Letter (correspondence), 29 Mar 1940,
M 780/27
Creator: Wilson, Leslie
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Letter to Bertram Charles Bell from Governor Leslie Wilson advising him that he and Lord Gowrie are of the opinion that Bell should "not join up with the Air Force again".
Item: Letter (correspondence), 10 Apr 1940,
M 780/28
Creator: Curnou, T. C.
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Letter to Bertram Charles Bell from Squadron Leader T C Curnou (?), Officers' Mess, No. 2 E.F.T.S., RAAF, Archerfield congratulating Bell on his being elected a Honorary Member of the Officers' Mess.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 28 Jun 1976 - 18 Jul 1976,
M 780/32
Creator: Sadler, Peter
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Two letters to Miss Pamela Bell from Peter Sadler, regarding his research on Bertram Charles Bell for an entry in the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Item: Letter (correspondence), 28 Nov 1902,
M 780/40
Creator: Bell, Frederick M.
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Letter to Victor Bell by his brother Frederick (Frick) M. Bell.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 11 Mar 1907 - 2 Jul 1941,
M 780/41
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
10 letters addressed to Gertrude Bell by family members and other correspondents.
Item: Letters (correspondence), ca. 1865-1918,
M 780/42
Creator: Bell, Gertrude
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Seven letters by Gertrude Bell addressed to family members and other correspondents. Also contained: one letter by Gertrude Auguste Norton written at Ecclesbourne and addressed to her cousin Louie, undated but c. 1865.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 17 Aug 1902 - 13 Dec 1902,
M 780/43
Creator: Bell, Una Elizabeth
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
21 letters by Una Elizabeth Bell addressed to her mother and other family members. These letters were mostly written from boarding school at Abbotsleigh and are mostly dated. Included is one letter from the headmistress of Abbotsleigh, Marian Clarke to Gertrude Bell.
Item: Letter (correspondence), 24 Sep 1918 - 26 Jan 1946,
M 780/45
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
One (1) letter and one (1) postcard addressed to Enid Bell (Doll).
Item: Letter (correspondence), 17 May 1916,
M 780/46
Creator: Bell, Enid
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
One letter by Enid Bell addressed to Paulo and Boss (Pauline and Ernest Bell).
Item: Correspondence, 9 Jun 1920 - Dec 1921,
M 780/47
Creator: North, Dudley
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Six letters and cards addressed to Aileen Bell by Dudley North. Captain Dudley North was the equerry in waiting of Edward, Prince of Wales (later Edward VIII), during his tour of Australasia on the Renown. North met Bertram and Aileen Bell at a Melbourne reception for Prince Edward in June 1920. On hearing that they were descendants of Major North he claimed to be a distant cousin of theirs. North met Aileen Bell again in Sydney and then again when Prince Edward visited Coochin Coochin Station in August 1920. Also contains a copy of "Crossing the line. With H.R.H. the Prince of Wales in H.M.S. Renown", inscribed by North to Aileen Bell and dated 18 Aug 1920.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 5 Sep 1920 - 22 May 1922,
M 780/48
Creator: Halsey, Lionel
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Three letters addressed to Aileen Bell by Lionel Halsey. Admiral Halsey of H.M.S. Renown met Aileen Bell during the Australian leg of Prince Edward's (later Edward VIII) Australasian tour.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 14 Dec 1919 - 7 Dec 1923,
M 780/49
Creator: Brooke, W. R.
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
17 letters addressed to Aileen Bell by W. R. Brooke (?) from London. Brooke most likely became an acquaintance of Aileen Bell's while she lived in London with her mother and sisters during World War I.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 21 Aug 1910 - 22 Nov 1940,
M 780/51
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
32 letters addressed to Aileen Bell by various correspondents, including some letters from Australian soldiers in her care during World War I.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 13 Apr 1916 - 20 Apr 1913,
M 780/52
Creator: Bell, Aileen
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Two letters by Aileen Bell addressed to "Boss" Ernest Bell regarding a car accident in which Gertrude and Una Bell had been involved.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 12 Jan 1915 - 18 Oct 1918,
M 780/53
Creator: Bell, Victor
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5727. The following is oversized: 5729 O/S (A3)
Scope and content :
52 letters by Victor Bell, mostly addressed to his sister Aileen Bell and his mother Gertrude Bell.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 27 Jul 1903 - 21 Feb 1930,
M 780/54
Creator: Bell, Ernest
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Three letters by Ernest Bell addressed to his brother Victor Bell and his mother Gertrude Bell.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 4 Mar 1905 - 26 Mar 1930,
M 780/55
Creator: Bell, Ernest
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Eight letters by Ernest Bell addressed to his mother Gertrude Bell and one (1) letter addressed to his brother Victor Bell and one (1) telegram from Ernest and Pauline Bell addressed to Mistress Bell.
Item: Letter (correspondence), 19 Aug 1910,
M 780/56
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
One letter signed Billee and addressed to "Billee Beloved" about the wedding of Ernest and Pauline Bell.
Item: Correspondence, Dec 1923,
M 780/57
Creator: Usher, Rusty
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
One card by Rusty Usher sent from aboard the H.M.S. Danae to the Bell family. Folding card with photograph of the ship pasted on the inside.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements :
Some insect-damage.
Item: Correspondence, Undated,
M 780/58
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Two unidentified fragments of correspondence or diaries, of which one appears to have been written on Malta and the other near Eidsvold and Mount Perry.
Item: Correspondence, 21 Oct 1890,
M 780/77
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Louis F. Dixon, Solicitor to Messrs Dowling & Dowling in the matter Blaxland v Norton.
Item: Letters (correspondence), 16 Aug 1914 - 16 Mar 1919,
M 780/82
Creator: Cobham, Henry G.
Extent and medium: Letters (correspondence)
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Transcripts of two letters by Henry G Cobham of Haslemere, Surrey, one addressed to "Dear Ricci", dated 16 August 1914, regarding the question: "Is this the war of Armageddon?", the other addressed to "Lady Zouche", dated 16 March 1919, relating to the post-World War I time, a "Time of Great Tribulation". It is unclear how these transcripts came into possession of the Bell family or whether they had any personal contact with either the writer or recipients of these letters.
Series: Diaries,
M 780
Finding aids :
An item list is available
Item: Record of expenses, probably kept by Bertram Charles Bell, recording date, item bought and amount spent., Feb 1910 - Mar 1910,
M 780/4
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
Record of expenses, probably kept by Bertram Charles Bell, recording date, item bought and amount spent.
Item: Diary, 30 Aug 1914 - 23 Mar 1919,
M 780/5
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Extent and medium: Diaries
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
Transcript of a diary (or diaries) kept by Bertram Charles Bell.
Physical characteristics and technical requirements :
Photocopy.
Item: Diary, 27 Nov 1918 - 4 Dec 1918,
M 780/23
Extent and medium: Diaries
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
Diary, apparently kept by a nurse caring for Bertram Charles Bell, while he was convalescing from illness.
Item: Daily report No. 1 Wing R.N.A.S., 29 May 1916,
M 780/25
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Daily report No. 1 Wing R.N.A.S.
Series: Ephemera,
M 780
Finding aids :
An item list is available
Item: Ephemera, 25 Dec 1917,
M 780/13
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
Christmas Dinner Menu. No. 10 Naval Squadron. Signed on the reverse by 18 members of the squadron, including Bertram Charles Bell.
Item: Broadsides, 1940,
M 780/21
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
One (1) reprinted newspaper article and four (4) broadsides "Farming industry. Major B. C. Bell's methods", reprinted from the Queensland Times by "Guardian" print, Boonah.
Item: Ephemera, 10 Jan 1919,
M 780/39
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Reprinted extracts from Supplements to the London Gazette, reprinting a despatch from Field Marshal Haig, Commander in Chief of the British Armies in France, submitting a list of names of officers, ladies and men serving under his command, whose distinguished and gallant services he considered deserving a special mention. Among those mentioned is Major V. D. Bell.
Item: Report card, 22 Jun 1902,
M 780/44
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Report card for Una Elizabeth Bell from Abbotsleigh Anglican Girls' School, Wahroonga, New South Wales, Class Vb.
Item: Receipt, Dec 1916,
M 780/60
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Receipt from Peter Jones, drapers and silk mercers of London to Miss Bell (Una Bell?) for the purchase of two pink hats.
Item: Ephemera, 1927,
M 780/79
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Cricket souvenir programme of the M.C.C. visit to Patiala. February 26th & 27th, 1927. Matches attended by Enid Bell and described in her book "Travels in India".
Item: Clippings, 20 Feb 1958,
M 780/80
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Newspaper clippings regarding the Queen Mother's visit to Coochin Coochin on 20 February 1958. Attached are transcripts of two letters to Una Bell from the Queen Mother and from Royal aide Martin Gilliert.
Item: Ephemera, 20 Mar 1926,
M 780/83
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Folded table menu. Printed on the front "Miss Bell. Chalet Parkwood, 20 March 1926". Six signatures in pencil on the reverse.
Item: Clippings, 1920-1932,
M 780/85
Location: Box 5728. The following is oversized: 5724 O/S (A3)
Scope and content :
Bound volume labelled "Early days in Coochin district" containing copied newspaper clippings relating to the Bell family, Coochin Coochin and Queensland history.
Series: Typescripts,
M 780
Finding aids :
An item list is available
Item: Typescript, 7 Jan 1919,
M 780/14
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
Eight-page typescript of "History of No. 210 squadron, R.A.F." by Bertram Charles Bell, then commanding officer of the squadron. The text itself extends to two pages, with six pages of appendices, being transcripts of messages from superior officers and the King of Belgium.
Item: Typescript, Undated,
M 780/15
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
83-page typescript (paginated 72, 11 pp.) "An Australian War Pilot with the R.N.A.S. & R.A.F." by Bertram Charles Bell. First draft, uncorrected.
Item: Typescript, Undated,
M 780/16
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
85-page typescript (paginated 2, 72, 11 pp.) "An Australian War Pilot with the R.N.A.S. & R.A.F." by Bertram Charles Bell. Corrected and annotated typescript.
Item: Just the right type. A farce in two acts, Undated,
M 780/61
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Bell, Enid: "Just the right type. A farce in two acts". Two eight-page typescripts (with significant textual differences).
Item: The miracle at Birrindah, Undated,
M 780/62
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Bell, Enid: "The miracle at Birrindah". 14-page typescript of a short story. Marked in pencil on the verso of the last page: "Typed copies of competition stories".
Item: The Captain. Our first American soldier guest, Undated,
M 780/64
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Bell, Enid: "The Captain. Our first American soldier guest". An account of an American soldier's stay at "an old homestead below the shadow of the long blue range which swept around the valley". It is unclear whether this is a fictional account or a fictionalised account of actual events.
Item: Typescripts, Undated,
M 780/68
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Fragments of an untitled typescript short story (6 pp.). The central character is Jean Macdonald.
Item: Typescript, Undated,
M 780/70
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Untitled typescript (2 pp.) in the form of a dialogue between Queen Elizabeth I. and Queen Elizabeth II.
Item: Stories from the long ago, Undated,
M 780/71
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728. The following is oversized: 5724 O/S (A3)
Scope and content :
"Stories from the long ago". Fragments of manuscript stories.
Item: Typescript, Undated,
M 780/72
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Untitled story in the "Stories from the long ago" series. On the Ugarapul tribe.
Item: The Queen bandicoot of the waterholes, Undated,
M 780/73
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
"The Queen bandicoot of the waterholes". Typescript short story (3 pp.).
Item: Stories from the long ago as told by Bungoey, the last survivor of the Ugarapul tribe, Undated,
M 780/74
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
"Stories from the long ago as told by Bungoey, the last survivor of the Ugarapul tribe". Typescript short story (4 pp.).
Item: Typescript, ca. 1927,
M 780/78
Creator: Bell, Enid
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Untitled typescript (11 pp.) relating to her visit to India in 1927. A detailed description of the North-Western borderland and the Pathaus and Afridis mountain tribes. Enid Bell also wrote a more detailed account of her whole visit "Travels in India. Being an account of a tour through the native States of Patiala and Mewar, by Miss Dolly Bell", published by the "Guardian", Boonah, September 1927.
Series: Publications,
M 780
Finding aids :
An item list is available
Item: Journal article, 1 May 1935,
M 780/17
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
Journal article "'Breguet' Dallas: A great Australian war pilot" by Bertram Charles Bell, extracted from Reveille (Official journal of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia (New South Wales Branch), p. 3.
Item: Journal article, 1 Sep 1935,
M 780/18
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
Journal article "'Ricki' Little of the R.N.A.S." by Bertram Charles Bell, extracted from Reveille (Official journal of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia (New South Wales Branch), p. 6.
Item: Journal article, 1 Oct 1935,
M 780/19
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
Journal article "'Punk' Manuel" by Bertram Charles Bell, extracted from Reveille (Official journal of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia (New South Wales Branch), p. 6.
Item: Journal article, 1 Dec 1936,
M 780/20
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
Journal article "'Raymond Collishaw, D.S.O., D.S.C., D.F.C." by Bertram Charles Bell, extracted from Reveille (Official journal of the Returned Sailors' and Soldiers' Imperial League of Australia (New South Wales Branch), pp. 22, 30 - 31.
Item: Obituaries, 16 Jun 1941,
M 780/31
Creator: Bell, Bertram Charles
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Three obituaries for Major Bertram Charles Bell. Newspaper cutting from the Courier Mail and two other unidentified newspapers and journals, possibly the Fassifern Guardian and Reveille.
Item: Journals, Apr 1977 - 16 Jul 1977,
M 780/33
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Sadler, Peter S.: Bertram Charles Bell: a biographical sketch. In: Sabretache. Journal and Proceedings of The Military Historical Society of Australia. Vol. XVIII, pp. 101 - 104. With a letter to Miss Pamela Bell from The Military Historical Society of Australia.
Series: Licenses,
M 780
Finding aids :
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Item: Pilot's license, 28 Jun 1915,
M 780/22
Extent and medium: Dimensions : 110 x 75 mm
Location: Box 5726
Scope and content :
Pilot license or 'aviator's certificate' of Bertram Charles Bell, issued by The Royal Aero Club of the United Kingdom for the Fédération Aeronautique Internationale (F.A.I.). License No. 1362.
Series: Photographs,
M 780
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Item: Photograph album, 1914-1915,
M 780/34
Location: Box 5733 O/S (wrapped)
Scope and content :
Photographic album, mostly containing photographs taken by or of Bertram Charles Bell while on active service with the Royal Naval Air Service (R.N.A.S.), later the Royal Air Force (R.A.F.). Only some of the photographs are captioned and dated. The dates given here are therefore approximate and are based on biographical sources. Included are photographs of Bell with the first "Queensland" Australian Hospital Ambulance, taken by him to Boulogne, France; British, Belgian and French troops; motor vehicles; trains; Bell at the Ruffy Baumann Flying school at Hendon; British aeroplanes (some crashed); bombed cities, including Ypres; aerial reconnaissance photographs. The photographs at the beginning of the album appear to be of ports called at on Bell's voyage to Europe from Australia. The photographs in this album appear not to be in chronological sequence and some are numbered in pencil below the image (1 - 67 and 150 - 156), but these are also out of sequence.
Item: Bell Family Photograph album, 1922-1925,
M 780/35
Location: Box 5732 O/S (wrapped)
Scope and content :
Photographic album, containing photographs taken by or of Bertram Charles Bell. Included are photographs of Coochin Coochin Station; horse racing and polo scenes; the Dudley Cup, Goondiwindi 1922, 1923 and 1924; group portraits of polo players; Bell family members and at the end a photograph or photographic postcard of Hawaiian surfer Duke Kahanamoku, who had visited Australia in 1915.
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Item: Photograph album, 1918-1926,
M 780/36
Location: Box 5731 O/S (wrapped)
Scope and content :
Photographic album titled on the upper board "On active service", containing photographs given to and taken by or of Bertram Charles Bell while on active service with the Royal Naval Air Service (R.N.A.S.) and later the Royal Air Force (R.A.F.). Only some of the photographs are captioned and dated. The dates given here are therefore approximate and are based on biographical sources. Included are photographs of Bell's fellow and superior officers, including a signed portrait of Brigadier-General Charles L. Lambe, an officer's mess (No. 10 Squadron?); British aeroplanes; aerial reconnaissance photographs; a shot-down German aeroplane; a seaplane carrier; Bell family members visiting England; post-war photographs of India (?), Coochin Coochin Station and fox-hunting scenes in England.
Item: Photograph album, 1914-1918,
M 780/37
Location: Box 5730 O/S (wrapped)
Scope and content :
Photographic album titled on the upper board "On active service", containing photographs taken by and of Bertram Charles Bell while on active service with the Royal Naval Air Service (R.N.A.S.), later the Royal Air Force (R.A.F.). Only some of the photographs are captioned and dated. The dates given here are therefore approximate and are based on biographical sources. Included are photographs of British aeroplanes, warships and guns; portraits of pilots; aerial reconnaissance photographs of Dunkirk and other Belgian and French regions.
Item: Photographs, Undated,
M 780/84
Location: Box 5728
Scope and content :
Fifteen Bell family photographs, including a photograph of James and Harriot Norton, Gertrude Bell's parents, and several portraits of family members.
Series: Awards,
M 780
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Item: DSO Award, 21 Apr 1917,
M 780/38
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Royal award appointing Charles Bertram Bell to be a member of the Distinguished Service Order.
Series: Badges,
M 780
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Item: Ranelagh badge 1922, 1922,
M 780/50
Location: Box 5727
Scope and content :
Ranelagh badge 1922. This badge was in all probability sent to Aileen Bell by W. R. Brooke.