Background
He was born in Melbourne to fitter and turner Arthur Erwin Fell and Stella May. He was a construction manager before entering politics, and served in the Citizen Military Forces from 1948 to 1950.
He was born in Melbourne to fitter and turner Arthur Erwin Fell and Stella May. He was a construction manager before entering politics, and served in the Citizen Military Forces from 1948 to 1950.
In 1970 he was elected to the Victorian Legislative Assembly as the Labor member for Greensborough, but he was defeated in 1973 by only five votes. Fell appealed to the Court of Disputed Returns and succeeded in overturning the election result, but lost the resulting by-election by a larger margin.
He was a member of Diamond Valley Shire Council from 1964, serving as president from 1968 to 1969 and from 1976 to 1977.