Source: Michael Doyle Their Name Liveth For Evermore: The Great War Roll of Honour for Leicestershire and Rutland.
He was the son of John Thomas Bell a Brickyard Labourer, born 1864 in Exton, Rutland and his wife Matilda, born 1872 in Seagrave, Leics. Thomas Anthony was born in 1892 at Countesthorpe Lodge., Leics., his siblings were John Henry, born 1891, Ann Louisa, born 1894, Herbert Edward, born 1896 and Fanny Elizabeth, born 1900, the latter four siblings were all born in Seagrave, Leics., in March 1901 the family home was at Top End, Seagrave, Leics., in the Ecclesiastical Parish of Seagrave, All Saints. In April 1911 Thomas was employed as a Brickyard Labourer and was residing in the family home at Seagrave, Leics., together with his parents and siblings, John, Herbert, Ann, Fanny and Mabel Allen Bell, born 1904 in Seagrave, Leics. His younger brother Herbert Edward also fell.