Remembering Today Casualty Private BEST, GEORGE MURRAY Service Number SX1391 Died 29/04/1941 Aged 21 A.I.F. 2/10 Bn., Australian Infantry Son of George and Jule Best, of Murray Bridge, South Australia; husband of Patricia Mary Best, of Sandford, Somerset, England. INSCRIPTION: HE LEFT US SO HAPPY & GAY, BUT THE SAD BLOW TOOK HIM AWAY Buried at TOBRUK WAR CEMETERY Location: Libya Number of casualties: 2272 Cemetery/memorial reference: 3. O. 6.
Unit History records are weird things - some go into all kinds of details and others seem to gloss over what seem to be important matters, such as the death of personnel From the War Diary collection online at the AWM
The other two blokes killed on the 29th during the dive-bombing attack: https://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2206266/shepherd,-reginald-frank/ Private Shepherd, Reginald Frank - Service Number SX2176 of A.I.F. 2/10 Bn. Australian Infantry Foster-son of Michael and Emily Jane Killian, of Canterbury, Kent, England. Casualty Private Milne, Alan Arthur - Service Number SX.1524 of A.I.F. 2/10 Bn. Australian Infantry Son of William and Susan Agnes Milne, of Prospect, South Australia.
Marriages Sep 1940 Best George M Vowles Salisbury 5a 844 Vowles Patricia M Best Salisbury 5a 844 1 son, born posthumously.
