Percy George Bastable

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Percy George Bastable was born in Damerham, Hampshire, on 17 Aug 1892 and baptised there on 11 Sep 1892 the son of Hugh Bastable and Ada Jane Bastable (nee Foster). He lived his early life in Damerham and later in Woodcutts, Sixpenny Handley, Dorset. He joined the Dorset Regiment as a Private (Service No. 10010). He served with the 5th Battalion in the Balkans from 11 Jul 1915 eventually becoming an Acting Sergeant. His father had died in 1915. He was discharged on 24 Mar 1919 and awarded the Victory and British War Medals as well as the 1915 Star. By the 1921 Census he was living with his widowed mother at Deanend, Woodcutts, Sixpenny Handley, working as a Gamekeeper. He married Mabel May Ford (nee Coward), (the widow of Bertie Ford who had died in military service on 27 Jun 1918), in the Wimborne, Dorset, Registry area during 1923. The 1939 Register shows him at Keepers Cottage, Yewstock, Sturminster, Dorset, still employed as a Gamekeeper. He died in Hinton St. Mary, Dorset, during early 1958 and was buried there on 8 Mar 1958.