Bassett (Cr) Herbert Vosper

**Fast Facts**
Type of person	Individual
Date of birth	29 Apr 1868
Place of birth	Bassett Town
Date of death	26 Oct 1918
Place of decease	Gawler

Herbert Vosper Bassett was the third surviving son of William Bassett (II) and Johanna Louisa Emilie (nee Klaucke), and grandson of Gawler’s original William Bassett (I) and Elizabeth, whose maiden name ‘Vosper’ became Herbert’s middle name. He was born in his parent’s home in Bassett Town (now Gawler South) in 1868 and in 1895 was married there to Florence Ethlinda Ames, the couple went on to have two daughters, Linda and Eileen.

Herbert’s obituary noted he was a genial, community-minded man, who was involved in sporting clubs, the Order of Foresters and was a Councillor for East Ward in 1915 and 1916. Serious illness forced him to retire from his role as councillor and he succumbed in 1918, aged just 50 years old. Both the Town Flag and the Forester’s Lodge Flag were flown at half-mast to acknowledge his passing.

BASSETT, Herbert Vosper

b. 29 Apr 1868, Bassett Town, SA (Reg. Port Gawler 62/546, mother Emilie KLAUCKE)

m. 9 Oct. 1895, ‘Florence Ethlinda AMES’, Res of William Bassett, Bassett Town, SA (Reg. Port Gawler 185/215)

BASSETT, Linda Marie, b. 8 Aug. 1896 (Reg. Adelaide 588/440)
BASSETT, Leah Dagmar Eileen, b. 13 Oct 1897 (Reg. Adelaide 611/357)

d. 1918 (Reg. Barossa 423/291)

Buried St George’s Cemetery, Gawler East, SA (H16 – there is no photograph of this plot in Flickr ‘*Burial Register and Headstones [1861 + ] St Georges Anglican Cemetery Gawler’ or on Find a Grave, suggesting there is no remaining monument)