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Driver JOSEPH HUNTLEY BESTFORD

Service Number: 72844
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Field Artillery

72nd Bde.

Date of Death

Died 04 September 1918

Age 34 years old

Buried or commemorated at

BAC-DU-SUD BRITISH CEMETERY, BAILLEULVAL

IV. A. 21.

France

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  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Robert and Elizabeth Bestford, of 14, Heugh Hall, Coxhoe, Co. Durham; husband of Ethel Keyland (formerly Bestford), of 2, Tate's Yard, Willington, Co. Durham.
  • Personal Inscription DEARLY REMEMBERED BY HIS SORROWFUL WIFE AND LITTLE DAUGHTER
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Buried or commemorated at

BAC-DU-SUD BRITISH CEMETERY, BAILLEULVAL
Pas de Calais France
Number of casualties: 743
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