THE name of a lost hero has been added to the roll of honour tablet, which commemorated those who lost their lives during World War One.

The plaque unveiling took place on December 8 and comes 103 years since William Henry Bastow’s death and during the centenary of the end of the Great War.

Around three years ago, former Old Farnhamians’ Association general committee member, John Clarke, told the committee that a name of a former pupil at Farnham Grammar School, William Henry Bastow, had been omitted from the World War One tablet, which hangs inside Farnham Sixth Form College.

William Bastow was killed in action in Gallipoli on November 26, 1915, aged 21.

He had attended the grammar school from 1904 to 1909, having previously been schooled at West Street School and St Polycarp’s Catholic Primary School.

John’s research discovered that William Bastow was commemorated on the Gostrey Meadow memorial, however his name had never been included on the tablet at the school.

It is believed that William Henry Bastow was the only Farnham hero to have died serving at Gallipoli with the Royal Naval Air Service (RNAS) and he is buried at the Lancashire Landing Cemetery in Turkey.

Records show that second lieutenant William Henry Bastow was an army officer in the Royal Field Artillery, attached to the RNAS.

He was born in 1894 in Hanwell, Middlesex, and was the son of Frank and Annie Bastow. The 1911 census for Farnham lists him as living at 2 The Borough with his parents, brothers and sisters.

Frank was listed as a shopkeeper (Corn Dealer and Poultry Foods) and William Henry was a 16-year-old ‘assistant’, presumed to be in the family business.

William did marry while on leave from the army in April 1915. His bride was Maude Cowan, born in 1897, whose father was of military descent stationed in Aldershot.

Maude gave birth to a son – William Frank Henry – on October 31, 1915, just 26 days before William died at Gallipoli. Sadly, William never met his son.

After William’s death, records show that his immediate family were located at The White House in West Street, Farnham, and in 1919 the entire family, apart from Maude and her son, emigrated to Canada.

Maude’s movements after she was widowed led her to Sevenoaks in Kent, where she married a farmer called George Wynne, however details of this marriage are not secured.

She did later return to the Aldershot/Farnham area and got married for a third time to Joseph Ostrom. She died in Farnham in 1969.

Her son, William Frank Henry, married in 1939 and lived with his wife Muriel, who was brought up in Tongham, until her death in 1978.

They lived in Oxenden Road, Tongham, for most of their married life, but there is no record that they had any children. William Frank Henry died in October, 2000.

The school’s war memorial can be found in the entrance lobby to the old building and now records the names of 72 Old Boys who lost their lives in World War One.

The war memorial reads: “In memory of the Old Boys of the Farnham Grammar School who gave their lives for their country in the Great War 1914-1918.

“Sed miles sed pro patria.”