Service Number: 5653
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 1st Machine Gun Battalion
Home Town: Bellingen, Bellingen, New South Wales
Died: Illness, United Kingdom, 16 January 2019, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: Tidworth Military Cemetery, England
Tidworth Military Cemetery, Tidworth, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Coffs Harbour Roll of Honor
Roland Best was born 1890 Raleigh, New South Wales; son of Samuel & Emma Eliza (nee Jarratt) Best. He enlisted in the AIF on 7/2/1916 and embarked from Sydney for active service abroad on 3/6/1916 per HMAT "Kyarra" (A55). He died from influenza and meningitis in the Military Hospital, Tidworth, England, aged 29 years.
Wife - Florence May (nee Hammond) Best of Coffs Harbour, NSW (Married 1916 Nundle, NSW)
1st Battalion Australian Machine Gun Corps - Service No. 5653
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 1st Machine Gun Battalion
Home Town: Bellingen, Bellingen, New South Wales
Died: Illness, United Kingdom, 16 January 2019, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: Tidworth Military Cemetery, England
Tidworth Military Cemetery, Tidworth, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Coffs Harbour Roll of Honor
Roland Best was born 1890 Raleigh, New South Wales; son of Samuel & Emma Eliza (nee Jarratt) Best. He enlisted in the AIF on 7/2/1916 and embarked from Sydney for active service abroad on 3/6/1916 per HMAT "Kyarra" (A55). He died from influenza and meningitis in the Military Hospital, Tidworth, England, aged 29 years.
Wife - Florence May (nee Hammond) Best of Coffs Harbour, NSW (Married 1916 Nundle, NSW)
1st Battalion Australian Machine Gun Corps - Service No. 5653
Service Number: 5653
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 1st Machine Gun Battalion
Home Town: Bellingen, Bellingen, New South Wales
Died: Illness, United Kingdom, 16 January 2019, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: Tidworth Military Cemetery, England
Tidworth Military Cemetery, Tidworth, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Coffs Harbour Roll of Honor
Roland Best was born 1890 Raleigh, New South Wales; son of Samuel & Emma Eliza (nee Jarratt) Best. He enlisted in the AIF on 7/2/1916 and embarked from Sydney for active service abroad on 3/6/1916 per HMAT "Kyarra" (A55). He died from influenza and meningitis in the Military Hospital, Tidworth, England, aged 29 years.
Wife - Florence May (nee Hammond) Best of Coffs Harbour, NSW (Married 1916 Nundle, NSW)
1st Battalion Australian Machine Gun Corps - Service No. 5653
Last Rank: Private
Last Unit: 1st Machine Gun Battalion
Home Town: Bellingen, Bellingen, New South Wales
Died: Illness, United Kingdom, 16 January 2019, age not yet discovered
Cemetery: Tidworth Military Cemetery, England
Tidworth Military Cemetery, Tidworth, Wiltshire, England, United Kingdom
Memorials: Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Coffs Harbour Roll of Honor
Roland Best was born 1890 Raleigh, New South Wales; son of Samuel & Emma Eliza (nee Jarratt) Best. He enlisted in the AIF on 7/2/1916 and embarked from Sydney for active service abroad on 3/6/1916 per HMAT "Kyarra" (A55). He died from influenza and meningitis in the Military Hospital, Tidworth, England, aged 29 years.
Wife - Florence May (nee Hammond) Best of Coffs Harbour, NSW (Married 1916 Nundle, NSW)
1st Battalion Australian Machine Gun Corps - Service No. 5653
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