Cecil Lionel Bell

Cecil Lionel Bell 1919-2012 Cecil Bell, aged 92, passed away on Friday 8 June.
Cecil attended Eastbourne College, Pennell House,
from 1933 to 1937. At the outbreak of war he was commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment and finished the war as a Major attached to the Intelligence Corps where he served as a Chief Interrogator to a number of the Nazi war criminals, including Himmler's personal bodyguard. He also participated in the Nurenburg trials prior to leaving the army at the end of 1946.

His civilian life was mainly with the Guardian Royal Assurance Group from which he took early retirement
in 1967. His first wife, Pamela, died in 1965, and
he married his second wife, Jocelyn, in 1968.

In retirement he continued to pursue his life-long
hobby as an entomologist and part of his butterfly and moth collection is now with Cambridge University and his collection of British butterflies is on display at the
Beachy Head visitors centre. His collection of entomological books has been donated to the
Cavendish Library at Eastbourne College.

His funeral will take place on Thursday 21 June with family flowers only Any donations would be welcomed by
The Butterfly Conservation, Manor Yard, East Lulworth, Wareham, Dorset, BH20 5QP (registered charity 254937). Any enquiries to Haines and Son, South Street, Eastbourne.