Bell Family Papers

Photographic album, mostly containing images taken by or of Bertram Bell while on active service with the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), later the Royal Air Force (RAF). Only some of the photographs are captioned and dated.

Included are photographs of Bell with the first 'Queensland' Australian Hospital Ambulance, taken by him to Boulogne, France; British, Belgian and French troops; motor vehicles; trains; Bell at the Ruffy Baumann Flying school at Hendon; British aeroplanes (some crashed); bombed cities, including Ypres; aerial reconnaissance photographs.

The photographs at the beginning of the album appear to be of ports called at on Bell's voyage to Europe from Australia. The photographs in this album appear not to be in chronological sequence and some are numbered in pencil below the image (1-67 and 150-156), but these are also out of sequence.

Photographic album titled on the upper board "On active service" containing photographs taken by and of Bertram Charles Bell serving with the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS), later the Royal Air Force (RAF). 

Only some of the photographs are captioned and dated. The dates given here are therefore approximate and are based on biographical sources. Included are photographs of British aeroplanes, warships and guns; portraits of pilots; aerial reconnaissance photographs of Dunkirk and other Belgian and French regions.

Photographic album titled on the upper board "On active service" containing photographs given to and taken by or of Bertram Bell while on active service with the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and later the Royal Air Force (RAF). Only some of the photographs are captioned and dated.

Included are photographs of Bell's fellow and superior officers, a signed portrait of Brigadier-General Charles L. Lambe, an officer's mess (No. 10 Squadron?); British aeroplanes; aerial reconnaissance photographs; a shot-down German aeroplane; a seaplane carrier; Bell family members visiting England; post-war photographs of India (?), Coochin Coochin Station and fox-hunting scenes in England.

Photographic album, containing images taken by or of Bertram Bell.

Included are photographs of Coochin Coochin Station; horse racing and polo scenes; the Dudley Cup, Goondiwindi 1922, 1923 and 1924; group portraits of polo players; Bell family members and at the end a photographic postcard of Hawaiian surfer Duke Kahanamoku, who visited Australia in 1915.

Loose photographs of the Bell family, including a photograph of James and Harriot Norton, Gertrude Bell's parents, and several portraits of family members.