Lieutenant-Colonel John K. Bell
Royal Winnipeg Rifles

Symptoms at present time are similar to those which first appeared. They first appeared in the Winter of 1916-17 got progressively worse until the following summer … In 1910 he had another nervous breakdown after overwork.

(Neurological Report, 8 Mar 1919)

Born on 23 May 1886 in Aberdeen, Scotland, John Kidd Bell was a University of Glasgow educated solicitor in Winnipeg and First World War veteran. Having moved to Canada shortly before the war, he volunteered as a lieutenant with the 8th Battalion in September 1914. Gassed and captured at the Second Battle of Ypres in April 1915, he spent the next two and a half years in a German prison camp.

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