title: Des Bell
text: # Des Bell
  
  Desmond Clyde Bell (born 23 May 1923) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL).
  
  ## Personal life
  
  Bell was born at Creswick, Victoria on 23 May 1923. He married Nina Helen Dora Thomson in 1948.
  
  Bell served overseas as a gunner in the Australian Army during the Second World War.
  
  