With Anzac Day now just days away, we remember Mallee boy Harold Thomas Bell. Bell enlisted for World War I using his mother’s maiden surname and fought as Harry Wickham in modern-day Israel and Palestine. He is possibly the youngest member of the Light Horse to have died in the Middle East, aged 16 years, seven months. The Light Horse trooper featured in Walpeup’s silo art is modelled on Bell...
Harold Thomas Bell, aka Wickham, was only 16 years old when he took part in the Australian Light Horses charge on Beersheba.
