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Private ROLAND HECTOR BEST

Service Number: 5653
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Australian Machine Gun Corps

1st Bn.

Date of Death

Died 16 January 1919

Age 30 years old

Buried or commemorated at

TIDWORTH MILITARY CEMETERY

C. 181.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service Australian
  • Additional Info Son of Samuel and Emma J. Best; husband of Florence Best, of Coff's Harbour, New South Wales. Born at Bellingen, Bellinger River.
  • Personal Inscription HE ANSWERED HIS COUNTRY'S CALL FOR HER HE GAVE HIS BEST, HIS ALL
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Buried or commemorated at

TIDWORTH MILITARY CEMETERY
Wiltshire United Kingdom
Number of casualties: 564
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