3rd class cross without swords that belonged to Captain Harold Edward Bell, Army Pay Department.
Silver, gilt, enamel.
Ring marked with a partly readable silver hallmark "boar's head".
Harold Edward Bell was born in Brixton, London, on 28 December 1878 and was commissioned directly into the Army Pay Department on 1 October 1914. He served with them during the Great War on the Western Front from 8 October 1914, one of the very few officers of the A.P.D. to qualify for the 1914 Star. Mentioned in Despatches in 1917, he was promoted Captain on 1 July 1918, and following the cessation of hostilities on the Western front he subsequently served with the British Military Mission to South Russia from 1 March to 21 October 1920, and was awarded the Order of St. Stanislas, Third Class. He was demobilized on 13 July 1921, and died in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, in 1958.