Service Details
Name:
 BESTWICK
Given Name:
 ERIC
Initials:
 E
Service No:
 328455V
Trade:
 W.Op./[Air]
Rank:
 Lieutenant
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Regiment:
 South African Air Force
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Unit:
 76 Operational Training Unit RAF
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Date of Death:
 1944-08-12
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Age:
 21
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Wellington X #LN564, engine cut on take-off; flew into ground 1m SSW of Aqir
Additional
Information:
Son of Frank and Charlotte Bestwick, of Johannesburg, Transvaal, South Africa.
Commemoration
Country:
 Israel
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Cemetery:
 RAMLEH WAR CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 5. F. 17.

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