Lt. Commander
HMCS ALBERNI 12 October 1942 - 21 August 1944
Age 26
Vancouver, BC
Awarded MENTION IN DISPATCHES as per Canada Gazette 10 June 1944
"This young Officer has served at sea for the majority of the war and has been in command of one of His Majesty's Canadian ships (HMCS Alberni) on escort duty in the Atlantic and the Mediterranean for the past two years. He has set a fine example by his energy, zeal and wholehearted devotion to duty."
For further information on Ian Bell after HMCS ALBERNI go HERE.
31.08.1939 - HMCS Nootka (minesweeper)
20.09.1940-23.09.1941 on delivery team of USS McCook (destroyer), renamed HMCS St. Croix (destroyer)
24.09.1941-05.01.1942 Commanding Officer, HMCS St. Croix (destroyer)
19.04.1942-27.09.1942 Commanding Officer, HMCS Swift Current (minesweeper)
30.09.1942-11.10.1942 Commanding Officer, HMCS Ville de Quebec (corvette)
12.10.1942-21.08.1944 Commanding Officer, HMCS Alberni (corvette) (sunk)
19.03.1945-(05.1945) HMCS St. Hyacinthe (RCN Signal School)
Download information panel for Bell from the TAP traveling memorial : BellPanel.pdf
While a high school student, Bell was in the Naval Cadets on HMCS Discovery in Stanley Park - this was his introduction to serving Canada as a Naval Commander in WW II.
