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Military service
Age:
23
Rank:
Lieutenant
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Birth:
March 4, 1894
Boston, Massachusetts
Enlistment:
March 9, 1915
Victoria, British Columbia
Death:
November 12, 1917
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
XXVIII. C. 3.
Additional information
Son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Best, of Victoria, British Columbia.
Digital gallery of Lieutenant Frederick Webster Best
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Circumstances of Death Registers
Source: Library and Archives Canada. CIRCUMSTANCES OF DEATH REGISTERS FIRST WORLD WAR Surnames: Bernard to Binyon. Mircoform Sequence 9; Volume Number 31829_B016719; Reference RG150, 1992-93/314, 153 Page 223 of 652 -
Photo of FREDERICK WEBSTER BEST
Newspaper clipping from the Daily Colonist of November 27, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y303uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Newspaper Clipping
Newspaper clipping from the Daily Colonist of November 20, 1917. Image taken from web address of http://archive.org/stream/dailycolonist59y297uvic#page/n0/mode/1up -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me -
Newspaper clipping
From the Victoria (B. C.) Times newspaper c.1917. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Frederick Webster Best
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Frederick Webster Best
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Frederick Webster Best
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Frederick Webster Best
Digital gallery of
Lieutenant Frederick Webster Best
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Commemorated on:
Page 200 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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