Only son of Alfred and Annie Ray Bell of 23 Morehampton Road, Dublin, Ireland.
Second Lieutenant of the 2ndRoyal Dublin Fusiliers.
Killed in action in World War I, 17th May 1915, Aged 19.
"BELL, 2nd Lt Alfred Ray Lancaster, 5th Battalion, attached 2nd Battalion. only child of Alfred Bell, of 23 Morehampton Road. Dublin, formerly of Ardcarne, Ballinasloe Galway. by his wife, Annie Bay Bell, dau. of James Bell, Lieut.. 3rd Buffs. nephew of the late Major Lancaster Bell, K..\., and grandson of Capt. James Bell, of the (i4th Regt.; Born. Ballinasloe, 10 Feb. 1890 ; edue. at St. George 'vaud llosse College. Dublin. He entered the Army on the outbreak of war ; was gazetted 2nd Lt. to the 5th Battn. of the Royal Dublin Fusiliers 15 Aug. 1914. and was attached to the 2nd Battalion then at the Front in May, 1915. He reached the firing line on 15 May, was wounded by shrapnel in the Inn-.: at the "second Battle of Ypres on the 17th. and died four hours later in the Pith Field Ambulance, mar \laniert> titrlie. He was num. and was buried in the military cemetery there."
He was buried in Vlamertinghe Military Cemetery, Ypres, Belgium. (His grave and associated records mistakenly give his surname as "Lancaster-Bell".)
There is a memorial window for Ray in St Ann's Church, Dawson Street, Dublin.