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  • BASTABLE
  • WE
  • WALTER EDWARD
  • Swanage
  • Dorset, England
  • Son of Walter and Alice Bastable, of 13, Eldon Terrace, Swanage, Dorset.
  • Flying certificate taken on Maurice Farman Biplane at Military School Brooklands, 26 November 1916

Military service

  • 1224
  • Serjeant
  • 6th Squadron Royal Air Force (Flying Corps)
  • 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

  • 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
  • Killed in flying accident
  • 17 March 1917
  • 24
  • XI - C - 2

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