Service Details
Name:
 BESTER
Given Name:
 ANDREW THOMAS
Initials:
 A T
Service No:
 P/6640
Rank:
 Leading Stoker
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Regiment:
 South African Naval Forces
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Unit:
 H.M.S.A.S. Africana
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Date of Death:
 1940-04-15
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Age:
 38
Cause of Death:
 Died of natural causes, at Volks Hospital, Cape Town
Additional
Information:
Son of Andrew Jacobus Oscar and Grace Elizabeth Bester, of Gray House, Fish Hoek; husband of Penelope Bester, of Cape Town. He had 5 children.
Commemoration
Country:
 South Africa
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Locality:
 Western Cape
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Cemetery:
 CAPE TOWN (PLUMSTEAD) CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Grave UJ. 51.

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