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Name Donald John Dean No.
VC Issue No. 1089 Awards VC OBE
Regiment Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment, 8th Battalion, D Company
Later The Queens Regiment
Now Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment
Rank VC Won T/Lieutenant
Rank End Of Career Colonel
Place Of Birth Herne Hill, South London, England
Place Of Death At his home, Park Avenue, Sittingbourne, Kent, England
Buried/Location Ashes St John the baptist Churchyard, Tunstall, Kent, England
Cremated Charing Crematorium, Kent, England
Date Buried/Cremated 16 December 1985
Headstone Headstone Plot/Grave no. Family plot
Gazetted 14 December 1918
VC Presented 15 February 1919 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England
Memorials
P Family Headstone, St John the baptist Churchyard, Tunstall, Kent, England
P Brass Memorial Plaque at St George's Church, Ypres, Belgium
P Victoria Cross Commemorative Paving Stone, by War Memorial, Crescent Hall, Central Avenue, Sittingbourne, Kent
P Memorial Stone by War Memorial, Crescent Hall, Central Avenue, Sittingbourne, Kent
P Named on Masonic VC Memorial, Freemasons Hall, Great Queen Street, London
P Dean Road, Sittingbourne, Kent
By The Way…
He was created a Commander of the Royal Danish Order of the Dannebrog
VC Held By
Lord Ashcroft Collection / I.W.M.
BORN 19 April 1897
DIED 9 December 1985 AGE 88
VC Won 24-26 September 1918 AGE 21
Place VC Won Near Lens, France
War/Campaign First World War 1918
