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Personal data

• Name BASTABLE
• Initials WE
• First name WALTER EDWARD
• Place of birth Swanage
• Country Dorset, England
• Family Son of Walter and Alice Bastable, of 13, Eldon Terrace, Swanage, Dorset.
• Extra info Flying certificate taken on Maurice Farman Biplane at Military School Brooklands, 26 November 1916

Military service

• Service number 1224
• Rank Serjeant
• Regiment and unit 6th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
• Other data related to military career A recruit, a direct entrant intro RFC 11 May 1914. As 2 Air Mechanic in No. 6 Squadron served in France from 6 October 1914. Awarded Royal Aero Club Aviators' certificate no. 3884 on 26 November 1916.

Death

• Wounded Artillery observation patrol, BE2d 6238 broke up on return; crashed and wrecked; Lt. BM Morris, the observer, was also killed and is buried in LMC
• Type of wounds Killed in flying accident
• Date of death 17 March 1917
• Died at the age of 24
• Grave reference Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery XI - C - 2

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