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Pte. Harry Bastow
British Army 2nd Btn. Border Regiment
from:Farnley, Leeds
(d.3rd February 1945)
Harry Bastow was born on 26th of June 1910. His parents were Frederick, born 1879 and Hannah. Hannah died in 1914 and his father remarried in 1915to Hilda Elizabeth Gibson.
On the 1911 Census, Harry is an infant living with Father Frederick who is a leather shaver, his mother and two older brothers, David and William. The family are living at 16 Marion Street, Whitehall Road, Farnley.
On the 1939 Register, Harry is shown with his occupation being walleyer and fitter textile. He is single. He was also living with his Father whose occupation is Machine Shaver and his step mother who is shown as unpaid domestic. The family are living at 112 Bawn Lane. Old Farnley.
During WW2 Harry served with the 2nd Battalion, Border Regiment. He died on 3rd of February 1945 and is buried at Taukkyan War Cemetery in Burma.
I am researching the men named on Farnley War Memorial, Leeds, this is the information I have found so far.