Name
Walter Sebastian Bastiani
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
14/05/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Corporal
29024
Royal Air Force
Recruits Depot
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WATTON-AT-STONE (SS. ANDREW AND MARY) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Village Memorial, Watton-at-Stone,
St Andrew and St Mary Church Roll of Honour, Watton-at-Stone
Pre War
Born in 1880 in Bembridge, Isle of Wight son of William Sebastian and Eliza Bastiani. He was living there in 1881 and 1891.
He married Fanny Agatha Holt in 1902 in the Isle of Wight and had one daughter. He lived in Reading, Berks and worked as a hairdresser and newsagent in 1911.
Wartime Service
Walter's grave (not CWGC) bears the inscription:
TO THE VERY DEAR AND HONOURED MEMORY OF MY (Fanny Bastiani) DARLING HUSBAND
AND FATHER OFF MY DAUGHTER MARATHON,
WALTER SEBASTIAN BASTIANI CPL. R.A.F. WHO GAVE HIS LIFE FOR GOD KING AND COUNTRY MAY 14. 1918, AGED 38 YEARS.
GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS.
Although not a CWGC grace is has a plaque "SITE OF A COMMONWEALTH WAR GRAVE".
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
