Legacy On 9 July 2000, through the initiative of "The Friends of the Green Howards Museum", General The Lord Dannatt, then Colonel of the regiment unveiled a memorial dedicated to Bell on the spot where he lost his life at Contalmaison, now known as Bell's Redoubt. The event was covered by television and every year since then a small service has been held there. In 2010, the tenth anniversary of the unveiling was celebrated and in 2016, at Bell's Redoubt, with a much improved memorial, there was scheduled to be a remembrance service on the hundredth anniversary of Bell's heroism.. There is a memorial plaque to him in Wesley Methodist Church, Harrogate, where he was a Sunday School Teacher. Footnotes References Monuments to Courage (David Harvey, 1999) The Register of the Victoria Cross (This England, 1997) VCs of the First World War - The Somme (Gerald Gliddon, 1994) Further reading Biography of Bell and his friend Captain Archie White VC. External links Donald Simpson Bell VC Family announcements: Donald Simpson Bell VC 1890 births 1916 deaths People from Harrogate West Yorkshire Regiment soldiers Green Howards officers British Army personnel of World War I British Battle of the Somme recipients of the Victoria Cross Crystal Palace F.C. players English footballers Newcastle United F.C. players Bradford (Park Avenue) A.F.C. players British military personnel killed in the Battle of the Somme Schoolteachers from Yorkshire British Army recipients of the Victoria Cross Footballers from North Yorkshire Association football defenders Association football midfielders People educated at Harrogate Grammar School Deaths by firearm in France Military personnel from Yorkshire