Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Pair: Ordinary Seaman A. J. Best, Royal Navy, who died on 8 November 1918

British War and Victory Medals (J.78397 A. J. Best. Ord. R.N.); Memorial Plaque (Alfred James Best) good very fine (3) £80-£100

Alfred James Best was born at Chatham on 23 April 1900 and joined the Royal Navy as a Boy Second Class on 10 September 1917. Posted to H.M.S. General Wolfe on 20 December 1917, and died of bronchial pneumonia on 8 November 1918. He is buried under a C.W.G.C. headstone in Chatham Cemetery.