Garth Edwin BEST

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Service Number:	Q16271
Enlisted:	8 January 1940
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	36 Infantry Battalion AMF
Born:	Sandgate, Queensland, Australia, 9 July 1918
Home Town:	Sandgate, Newcastle, New South Wales
Schooling:	Not yet discovered
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Illness, New Guinea, 12 June 1944, aged 25 years
Cemetery:	Port Moresby (Bomana) War Cemetery, Papua New Guinea CWGC Grave No: Section B, Plot 7, Row D, Grave 27 - B7.D.27. Inscription: "He gave his life for his country."
Memorials:	Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Sandgate War Memorial

3 Sep 1939:	Involvement Private, Q16271
8 Jan 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, Q16271, 36 Infantry Battalion AMF
12 Jun 1944:	Enlisted Sandgate, Queensland
12 Jun 1944:	Involvement Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, 36 Infantry Battalion AMF, Died from scrub typhus in New Guinea.

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Rank -Son of Private

John Edwin and Ruth Elena Best, of Sandgate, Queensland

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