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Identification note: Dorothy Bell, (1887 - 1940) was the youngest child of William Heward Bell, Squire of Seend, and his wife Hannah Taylor-Cory of Cleeve House, Seend, Wiltshire. WH Bell is notable as a WANHS member who was instrumental in raising the money to purchase Stonehenge for the nation. His eldest son Cory became an army officer, his daughter Lorna married William Action and it is their children that feature in some of the photographs. Dorothy's brother Clive is perhaps the most famous of the siblings, achieving fame as a member of the Bloomsbury Group and marrying Vanessa Stephen, sister of Virginia Woolf. Dorothy married Henry Hony in 1923 and had 1 daughter Selina in 1924.

Summary: A photograph album/scrap book containing 381 photgraphs and various memorabilia from 1916 - 1920, the property of Miss Dorothy Bell (later Mrs Hony) of Cleeve House, Seend, Wiltshire. Album includes: Family photographs; Photographs from her service with the French Red Cross in World War I. Documents showing acceptance and permission to travel to Croix-Rouge Francaise 18.12.1916, French railway journey details 25.1.17, Order de Mission Croix Rouge Francaise 11.12.1916, Correspondance Des Armees De La Repulique/Correspondence Militair en Franchise. Order De Transport to Abbeville dated 23/3/1917, Order de Transport depart Calais 1/1/1917. List of people departing to the front 17/3/1917, Single ticket from Boulogne to London. The work of Dorothy H Bell for various voluntary organisations in support of the war effort in Wiltshire, including information on the Wilts. War Agricultural Committee;Board of Trade and Agriculture 'An Appeal to all Women'. Devizes and District Women's Emergency Corps; the Vegetable Products Commitee for Naval Supply; receipts from Lowestoft and Aberdeen for food consignments, 1918. An American Fair & Jumble Sale, County of Wilts Card Permit to purchaase sugar/fruit etc. The National Egg Collection for the Wounded; the National Salvage Council appealling for fruit stones and hard nut shells needed to make Anti-Gas Masks. National Salvage Council documents 1918. Various labels in Acknowledge For Supply Of Fruit Or Vegetables, 1918. Defence of the Realm Permit Book, Hannah Dorothy Heward Bell, 10.8.1918. Devizes and District Women's Emergency Corps, labels/letters for consignment of goods via Great Western Railway, 1919. Official telegram dated 11 November 1918 announcing the signature of the Armistice; military cards and letters from various notables including the Commander in Chief of The Grand Fleet, 1918/1919. Election posters and ballot paper for the election of December 1918, in which Miss Bell's father Lt-Col W Heward Bell, stood as a candidate; A Meeting for Women Electors: Miss D H Bell. Press reviews and photographs of th The Naval Review of July 1919; newspaper letter re: Vegetables for the Fleet. by Miss Bell. Newspaper cutting 'Seend Heroes' Welcome to Ex-Service Men, Mr W Bell's Eulogy. Advertisement for Steeple Ashton Churchyard fund, 1919; Cuttings of Avon Vale meetings. Invitation to Admit Bearer to Armistice Day, Westminster 1920. Notice for the opening of Seend Women's Institute Hall. Also loose papers inside back cover: Programme for Wiltshire Lawn Tennis Tournament in Trowbridge in JUly 1921 and July/August 1922; Some pages from a race meeting possibly at Newmarket (undated).