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Flying Officer DEREK WILFRED BEST

Service Number: 175398
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve

50 Sqdn.

Date of Death

Died 10 August 1944

Age 21 years old

Buried or commemorated at

THURE COMMUNAL CEMETERY

Mil. Plot. Row 1. Coll. grave 3-8.

France

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Kenneth W. Best and Gladys A. Best, of Cottingham, Yorkshire.
  • Personal Inscription GREATLY LOVED BY THOSE WHO KNEW HIM
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