Service Details
Name:
 BESTER
Given Name:
 FREDERICK
Initials:
 F
Service No:
 14256
Rank:
 Sergeant
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Regiment:
 Duke of Edinburgh's Own Rifles, S.A. Forces
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Unit:
 1st
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Unit 2:
 "A" Coy.
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Date of Death:
 1941-02-14
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Date of Birth:
 1912-11-11
Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Killed in action, by enemy machine gun fire during Alpha Company?s advance on Gobwin in Abyssinia
Additional
Information:
Son of Frederick and Huibrecht Bester, of Tamboerskloof. Husband of Anna Elizabeth Bester, of Tamboerskloof. Born Moorreesburg. A clerk with Southern Life Insurance
Commemoration
Country:
 Kenya
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Cemetery:
 NAIROBI WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 2. F. 29.

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