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Corporal JOHN JOSEPH BEST

Service Number: 2033649
Regiment & Unit/Ship

Royal Engineers

577 Field Coy.

Date of Death

Died 17 May 1941

Age 25 years old

Buried or commemorated at

PORTSMOUTH (KINGSTON) CEMETERY

Plot 79 (Trembles). Row 2. Grave 5.

United Kingdom

Commonwealth War Graves Commission - Headstone Placeholder
  • Country of Service United Kingdom
  • Additional Info Son of Norman W. J. Best and Agnes M. Best, of Portsmouth; husband of Margaret Rosina Best, of Eastney.
  • Personal Inscription AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE WILL REMEMBER HIM
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