F. S. Bell 1939. "Exeter's" six eight-inch guns were mainly responsible for seriously damaging the in the Battle of the River Plate in December 1939. In this battle, "Exeter" also incurred severe damage from seven hits by eleven-inch shells and suffered 61 killed and 23 wounded. One salvo from the "Graf Spee" did a great deal of damage to the wheelhouse and killed all but three of the officers in it. Bell survived with minor injuries and he ordered that the remaining turrets should continue firing on the enemy. As damage control parties battled fires and flooding, Bell used a compass from one
S. S. Still day for burial at Woodland Cemetery. On October 3, 1877, Summerfield married Ella Daugherty in Lawrence, Kansas. They raised two children: George and Delia. S. S. Still Summerfield Saunders Still (1851–1931) was an osteopath and founder of a school of osteopathy. Still and his wife Ella Daugherty married in 1891 and had two children, Persus (Percy) who became a surgeon, and Christina. Still was the son of James Still, a medical doctor trained in Chicago, Illinois, and Rahab Saunders Still. The Still family moved to Kansas, where S. S. Still was educated in Blue Mound, Eudora, and at Baker University