|
Walter Dalrymple Maitland Bell (1880–1954), known as Karamojo Bell, was a Scottish adventurer, big game hunter in East Africa, soldier, decorated fighter pilot, sailor, writer, and painter. Bell was an advocate of the importance of shooting accuracy and shot placement with smaller calibre rifles, over the use of heavy large-bore rifles for big African game. He improved his shooting skills by careful dissection and study of the anatomy of the skulls of the elephants he shot. He even perfected the clean shooting of elephants from the extremely difficult position of being diagonally behind the target; this shot became known as the Bell Shot.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Lot 809 / Sale 1319 )〕 Although chiefly known for his exploits in Africa, Bell also travelled to North America and Tasmania, sailed windjammers, and saw service in East Africa, Greece and France during World War I.〔'Death in the Silent Places, author Peter Capstick,St Martins Ppess 1981,〕 ==Early life== Bell was born into a wealthy family of Scottish and Manx ancestry, on the family's estate named Clifton Hall, (today a school) in Linlithgowshire, near Edinburgh in 1880. Walter was the second-youngest of 8 children. His mother died when he was two years old and his father died when he was six. His father Robert Bell owned a successful business in coal and shale oil and the Bell family resided in their stately home bear Broxburn, as well as owning the surrounding estate and other country properties.〔Obit. Robert Bell, The Scotsman, Thursday 31 May 1894〕 He was brought up by his elder brothers but ran away from several schools, and he once hit his school captain over the head with a cricket bat. At the age of 13 he went to sea, and in 1896, at the age of 16, he hunted lions for the Uganda Railway using a single-shot rifle chambered in .303 British.〔, Author WDM Bell, Edited Townsend Whelen, 'Bell of Africa'1960〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「W. D. M. Bell」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
|