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Military service
Service number:
A/3605
Age:
28
Rank:
Private
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
The Royal Canadian Regiment
Birth:
November 23, 1916
Owen Sound, Ontario
Enlistment:
January 17, 1940
London, Ontario
Death:
December 6, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
I, C, 2.
Additional information
Son of Walter James Best and Lillian Maud Best.
Digital gallery of Private Douglas Lloyd Best
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Newspaper Clipping
The Toronto Star, January 9, 1945, page 5 -
Newspaper Clipping
The Toronto Star, January 9, 1945, page 5 -
Photo of Douglas Lloyd Best
Memorialized on the pages of the Globe and Mail. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Photo of DOUGLAS LLOYD BEST
In memory of the men and women remembered on the pages of the Toronto Star. Submitted for the project, Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Toronto Telegram January 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Owen Sound Sun Times January 1945. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Private Douglas Lloyd Best
Digital gallery of
Private Douglas Lloyd Best
Digital gallery of
Private Douglas Lloyd Best
Digital gallery of
Private Douglas Lloyd Best
Digital gallery of
Private Douglas Lloyd Best
Digital gallery of
Private Douglas Lloyd Best
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 249 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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