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Clement Francis Best

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  • Title
  • Forenames
    Clement Francis AWMM
  • Surname
    Best AWMM
  • Ingoa
  • Also known as
  • Service number
    NZ411975 AWMM
  • Gender
    Male AWMM
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  • Birth
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  • Address before enlistment
  • Post war occupation
  • Next of kin on embarkation
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Service

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Training and Enlistment

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Embarkations

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Prisoner of war

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  • Capture details
  • Days interned
  • Liberation date
  • Liberation Repatriation
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  • POW serial number

Medical history

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Biographical information

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  • Husband of Marjorie; father of Matthew, David

    Cenotaph database record compiled from information in the Death Notice AWMM

Death

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  • Death
    19 April 2005 AWMM
    Age 90 AWMM
    Tauranga, Bay of Plenty AWMM
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  • Obituary
    Death notice: New Zealand Herald AWMM
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Memorial

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    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • The New Zealand Herald AWMM
      Death notice: New Zealand Herald AWMM
    • This record is a work in progress and was partially compiled from the “Database of New Zealand Airmen who took part in Advanced Air Training in Canada during WW2”. Researched by Ivan and Lorna Lindsey of Tauranga. N.Z. 2003 – 2012. Reproduced with permission. AWMM

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