A former deacon of the Baker’s Incorporation of Dundee has died in his 100th year.
Apart from the war years when he served in The Black Watch, Mr Robert Bell was an accountant with Wallace Land o’Cakes at their Dura Street office until he retired in 1980.
A former pupil of Morgan Academy, he was a Scout and then Scoutmaster with the 44th St Salvador’s Church troop before the war and married Dorothy, a Tawny Owl with the church’s Brownies, in 1939.
His connection with The Black Watch continued after the war when he served on the committee, and as treasurer at the Red Hackle, The Black Watch Association club in Dundee, and on the association’s executive committee at Balhousie Castle.
Through his work at Wallace’s he became treasurer of the Scottish Bakery Students’ Association for many years and was made a life member of their English equivalent.
As a member of the Bakers Incorporation, the premier of Dundee’s Nine Trades, he was elected boxmaster (treasurer) and then deacon of the craft and was also a member of the Tailors Craft.
A Dundee supporter, he was delighted when they regained their position in the Scottish Premiership.
Mr Bell is survived by his daughter Dorothy who lives in the USA, son Kenneth in Perth and daughter Anne, in New Zealand, as well as eight grandchildren and five great-grandchildren.