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Frank Bennett was born at Woodcutts, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, on 11 Dec 1885 and baptised at Sixpenny Handley Church on 24 Jun 1886 the son of John Bennett and Mary Ann Bennett (nee Elliott).  He lived all his life, apart from Military Service, in the Sixpenny Handley area.  He had enlisted with the Hampshire Regiment as a Private (Service No. 7151).   He served in France and Flanders from 23 Aug 1914 where he had received gunshot wounds to the chest, head and buttocks for which he received a limited pension in due time.  He was eventually promoted to Corporal and discharged on 15 Feb 1919 and awarded the Victory and British War  Medals along with the 1914/15 Star.   By the time of the 1939 Register he was still single and living in The Street, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset, working as a Dorset County Council Road Foreman.  His death was recorded at the North Dorset Registry in Apr 1979 when he was aged 93 years.

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Robert Harvey Beaufoy was born at Coombe House, Donhead St. Mary, Wiltshire, on 8 Oct 1896 and baptised at St. John the Baptist Church, Charlton, Donhead St. Mary, on 19 Nov 1896 the son of Mark Hanbury Beaufoy, a Vinegar Distiller, and Mildred Scott Beaufoy (nee Tait).  He spent all his early life in and around the environs of Coombe House, until by 1911 he was attending Repton School, Repton, Derbyshire, as a Scholar/Boarder.  He had taken part in the Officer Training Corps whilst at the school and held the rank of Cadet Sergeant.  At the outbreak of war he enlisted with the 17th (County of London) Battalion of the London Regiment (The Poplar and Stepney Rifles) being commissioned as a 2nd Lieutenant on 13 Oct 1914.  He served in Palestine as well as France and Flanders during which time he was awarded the Military Cross, the Meritorious Service Medal and the Territorial Force Efficiency Medal as well as being mentioned in dispatches.   At the end of the conflict he also received the Victory and British War Medals along with the 1914/15 Star.  He had taken employment as an Art Studio Manager during which time he married Edna Irene May Crisp on 6 Oct 1920 at St. Peter's Church, Cranley Gardens, Kensington, London.  They went on to have one son, Michael Henry Beaufoy in 1922.  Robert had set up home at 3 Prince of Wales Mansions, Battersea, London, and regrettably died there on 24 Dec 1925.  His son had served with the Royal Air Force in the second world war and was killed in action on 9 Jun 1942 whilst fly as Observer in a Blenheim bomber of Bomber Command.   Robert's brother, George Maurice Beaufoy, had served with the YMCA in WW1 but was himself killed by a bomb in WW2 on 17 Apr 1941.

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Arthur Cecil Bastable was born in Sixpenny Handley, Dorset on 4 Aug 1899 and baptised there on 29 Aug 1899 the son of Hugh Bastable and Ada Jane Bastable (nee Foster).  He lived all his life apart from Military Service in Woodcutts, Sixpenny Handley.   He had enlisted on 5 Sep 1917 and joined the 9th Training Battalion as a Private (Service No. 20812).  He was transferred to the Somerset Light Infantry (Service No. 40521) on 1 Dec 1917.  He was based in the UK only and was discharged on 28 Feb 1918 as being no longer medically fit for service.  There are no medal or Silver War Badge records.  He regrettably died in Sixpenny Handley on 4 Jul 1919 and he was buried there on 8 Jul 1919.   His brother, Allen James Bastable, also served and survived the conflict.

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Harry Barnes was born in Tarrant Gunville, Dorset, during 1884 the son of Charles Barnes and Katherine Barnes (nee Trowbridge).  He spent his early life in Tarrant Gunville and also Melbury Abbas, Shaftesbury, Dorset.  He had enlisted in the Dorsetshire Regiment as a Private (Service No. 6535) prior to the 1911 Census which shows him at the Wanowrie Lines, Poona, India, as part of the 2nd Battalion.  He had been posted to Mesopotamia during the early part of WW1 and died there with death presumed to be 29 Jul 1916.  He qualified for the Victory and British War Medals as well as the 1914/15 Star though no actual record has been found.  He is remembered on the Basra Memorial, Basra, Iraq, (Panel 22 and 63).  He is also mentioned in the Memorial Book of Remembrance at Steeple Langford, Wiltshire, where his parents had moved in 1911.