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Private James (or Frank) Best

 

Best

 

Private James (or Frank) Best, 9th (North Irish Horse) Battalion, Royal Irish Fusiliers, Service No. 41396. Formerly North Irish Horse, Service No. 1115. Born Richhill, County Armagh. Enlisted Portadown, County Armagh. Residence Richhill. Died of wounds on 3 October 1918. Buried at Dadizeele New British Cemetery, Moorslede, West-Vlaanderen, Belgium, grave II.D.4. The gravestone inscription reads:

41396 PRIVATE

FRANK BEST

NORTH IRISH HORSE

3RD OCTOBER 1918

 

Image kindly provided by Steve Rogers, Project Co-ordinator of the The War Graves Photographic Project, www.twgpp.org.