LIEUTENANT Donald Simpson Bell, who won the Victoria Cross for bravery in the First World War (Memory Lane, July 18), would have trained as a teacher at Westminster College, London – the college did not move to Oxford until 1959.
I understand that Westminster College archives of its students who served and died in both world wars, were transferred to Oxford when it moved here.
I do not know if the stainedglass memorial window in his memory was moved from London or was ‘new’ at the Harcourt Hill site.
I note that to supplement his teacher’s salary, Donald Simpson Bell played football for Bishop Auckland and Newcastle.
In October 1912, he played as an amateur for Newcastle and then played as a professional for Bradford Park Avenue.
JOHN BLAKEMAN
Newland Close, Eynsham
Write to: John Chipperfield, Memory Lane, Oxford Mail, Osney Mead, Oxford OX2 0EJ, or send an email to memory.lane@oxfordmail.co.uk
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