SOLDIER DETAILS:
Bastedo,
Alfred Carbert
Captain 1st Battalion WOR Officer
April 23, 1915
Menin
Gate Memorial, Ypres, Belgium
Born Milton ON
Maple
Leaf Legacy Project |
Milton Cenotaph
R. Laughton
Book of Remembrance
Parliament Buildings Ottawa
Menin Gate Memorial
Commonwealth War Graves
Menin Gate Inscription
Thanks to Sabine
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Captain Bastedo
is remembered on the Milton Cenotaph for his
considerable contribution to Milton's Great War effort.
As with all soldiers, he is also recorded in the Book of
Remembrance in Ottawa.
Alfred
Bastedo's final resting place is unknown.
He is commemorated on the Menin Gate Memorial in Ypres,
Belgium.
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clippings on the Canadian Virtual War Memorial of Captain
Bastedo (see: photo
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SOLDIER SUMMARY:
| Captain Bastedo was one of the first men to
enlist from the Milton area, on September 22, 1914. He was
taken on strength in the CEF 1st Battalion on April 11, 1915,
and killed in action on April 23, 1915.
On that April day in 1915 the 1st Battalion received orders
to move over the Yser Canal to attack Pilckem Village (see
details) where it was subjected to heavy artillery, machine
gun and rifle fire. Officer casualties were 7 wounded and
3 killed. This was the period of the Great War known as
the "Ypres Gas Attack" and Captain Bastedo was one of
many casualties.
The University
of Toronto Roll of Honour (page 10) reports that Captain
Bastedo was killed near St. Julien, during the CEF counter
attack on the morning of April 23, 1915. He was one of the
1st UofT students to fall in the Great War and his degree was
conferred after his death. 
Captain Bastedo
University of Toronto Honour Roll
Toronto Star April 26, 1915
Marika Pirie Collection
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The soldier pages contain information
that is available from a number of resources. The following hyperlinks
are active where the information is available:
The summary of the service is taken from
the soldier's service records, if they were available from Library and
Archives Canada. A complete copy of the service record is
available in electronic and paper format in the Alex
Cooke Memorial Archives at the Milton Historical Society.
Using that summary, combined with the key references, a summary of the
events leading up to the death of the soldier has been prepared.
The research information available is as noted on the Canadian
Expeditionary Force Study Group web site Matrix
Project as well as in the Library and Archives Canada On-Line
War Diaries.
A summary of all the soldiers is
contained on the Web Blog "Great
War Soldiers of Milton, Ontario CANADA". Please also
be sure to purchase your own copy of "Milton
Remembers World War I - The Men and Women We Never Knew" by
John Challinor II and Jim Dills, edited by Ken Lamb. |
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