Edwin Wallace BEST MID

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BEST, Edwin Wallace

Service Number:	SX2933
Enlisted:	6 May 1940, Adelaide, South Australia.
Last Rank:	Lieutenant
Last Unit:	2nd/27th Infantry Battalion
Born:	Murwillumbah, New South Wales, Australia, 28 September 1917
Home Town:	Wayville, Unley, South Australia
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Civil Servant
Died:	Killed in Action, Papua, 1 December 1942, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea CWGC Grave No: Section B, Plot 6, Row A, Grave 8 - B6.A.8. Inscription: "God rest his gallant soul. I will always remember you, dear. Mother."
Memorials:	Adelaide South Australian Railways WW1 & WW2 Honour Boards, Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour

World War 2 Service

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement SX2933
3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Captain, SX2933, 27th Infantry Battalion
6 May 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion, Adelaide, South Australia.
Date unknown:	Involvement
Date unknown:	Involvement Captain, SX2933, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion, Kokoda - Papua
Date unknown:	Enlisted SX2933, 2nd/27th Infantry Battalion

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

The Advertiser (Adelaide, SA: 1931 - 1954) Wednesday 16 December 1942

Private Casualty Advices

Mrs. E. M. Best, of Sixth avenue, St. Peters, formerly of Rutland avenue, Unley Park, has been advised that her only son, Capt. E. W. Best, has been killed in action in New Guinea. Capt. Best was attached to the British Army for six months. He re-joined his battalion in Syria, and came home in March of this year. He was a grandson of the late Mr. Edwin Broad, of Adelaide, and Sir Robert Best, of Melbourne. Before enlisting he was employed by the South Australian Railways Department.

http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article48894512 (nla.gov.au)

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