New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

3rd Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37472

About

Born in New Zealand

2 February 1872

Parents

Mother

Agnes Matilda Best

Father

William Best

Residence

Hometown

Wangapeka

Work

Occupation

Miner

Employer

Collosus Coal Mining Company

Personal Life

Marital Status

Single

World War I (1914-1918)

British War Medal

Victory Medal

Died at the age of 68

10 June 1940

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5520 79/0014330, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.II, Roll No.45, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 35.

Anthony Byledbal, “Cecil John Best (1872-1940)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/48