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|Surname and forenames=Bastable John Daniel Langford
|Army number=73866
|Rank=2nd Lieutenant
|Decorations=
|Date of birth=4/6/1916 Carlisle.
|Age=
|Unit=Cadet Lance-Corporal, St Bees School Contingent, Junior Division OTC.  Enlisted in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers.  Commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in the 5th Battalion (Search Light Regiment) 1/1/1938.   London Gazette refers to Commission 1/6/1939 and posting to 7th Battalion.  Posted to 9th Bn RNF.  Mobilised 24/8/1939.  Served B.E.F.  Dunkirk.  Relinquished Commission 24/1/1942 on being appointed to a Commission in the Royal Air Force Voluntary Reserve.
|Company/Battery=W Company, No.1 Platoon.
|Task or role=Platoon Commander.
|Promotions=War Substantive Lieutenant 1/1/1941.  Emergency Commission as Probationary Pilot Officer, General Duties Branch RAFVR 21/2/1942 as 117669.  Promoted probationary Flying Officer 1/10/1942.  Appointment confirmed as War Substantive 21/2/1944.  Flight Lieutenant.
|Wounded=Yes, while with B.E.F.
|Prisoner of War=
|Died/Killed in action=Death registered May 1993, Richmond, Surrey.
|Home address=Son of John Daniel Bastable and Amy Augusta Haxby.  Married Isabel L Hunt in Knaresborough in Q1 1944.  From entries traced in the London Gazette he appeared to be working as a Solicitor in Newcastle-upon-Tyne post-war.
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