Born at Maidstone, Kent.
Enlisted at Canterbury on the 25th of January 1839.
Age: 21.
Height: 5' 9".
Trade: Musician.
From Private to Corporal: 26th of October 1846.
Marriage registration [possible]
A William Walter Bassett married a Mary Ann Turner, in the January Quarter of 1849, in Coventry. [Source: England & Wales, FreeBMD Marriage Index, 1837-1915, vol 16 p380.]
Died at Balaclava on the 18th of November 1854.
Entitled to the Crimean medal with clasps for Alma, Balaclava, Inkerman and Sebastopol.
Died at Balaclava on the 18th of November 1854.
Next of kin: Wife, Mary Bassett, living at Coventry.
RM, 2013: The "Return relating to the Patriotic Fund" (published House of Commons, 30 June 1859), detailing orphans of deceased soldiers, shows (p.8) a Mary Ann Bassit, aged 8 years, and a Catherine Bassit, 7, admittance no 371, daughters of William Walter Bassit, 11th Hussars. Their mother's name is given as Mary Ann. In the column headed "Mother's abode", she is shown as "Struck off for immorality".
[PB: What did this mean? There is a similar entry for Hannah, the wife of 872 William Taylor, 8th Hussars.].
The girls were admitted to The Royal Victoria Patriotic Asylum, Wandsworth, on the 12th of October 1857.