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Charles Henry Bell joined the RAFVR in August 1939 as an Airman u/t Pilot and was called up at the outbreak of war. He completed his training and joined 234 Squadron in September 1940.
On 9th October he crashed on landing at St. Eval in Spitfire R6621, following the destruction of a Do17 off Newquay.
On 1st March 1941 Bell failed to return from a convoy escort sortie off the Scilly Isles in Spitfire I N3101.
He is remembered on the Runnymede Memorial, panel 39.