🇺🇲Vietnam War Stories: Honouring the Heroes We Lost: Ronald John Bell of Western Australia
Today we honour Private Ronald John Bell of Albany Western Australia. Ron, the eldest of six children, was a National Serviceman serving with 2RAR/NZ (ANZAC) (The ANZAC Battalion comprising 2nd Battalion, The Royal Australian Regiment and a component from the 1st Battalion, Royal New Zealand Regiment).
“Between 23 November 1967 and 5 January 1968, under the code name Operation Forrest, 2RAR/NZ (ANZAC) was conducting operations in Phuc Tuy Province to deny the VC access to the rice harvest. The battalion was operating in a wide area east of Route 2. During the later part of November 1967 A and C Company were operating immediately north of Route 23 and were in action against the VC. On the 30 November 1967 a patrol from A Company suffered ten casualities from what was thought to be a command detonated mine. Private Bell perished instantly. He was 22 years old.”
Private Ronald John Bell lies in rest at Allambie Park Cemetery in Albany Western Australia. Lest We Forget.
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Original description and photo sourced by Virtual War Memorial Australia and The Australian War Memorial/STE/67/0564/HQ
