Service Details
- Branch of Service
- Army
- Conflict
- World War I (1914-1918)
- Date of Enlistment
- 23/03/1916
- Place of Enlistment
- Melbourne, Victoria
Personal Details
- Gender
- Male
- Date of Birth
- 17/12/1895
- Place of Birth
- Warrnambool, Victoria
- Address (at enlistment)
- Hawthorn, Victoria (previously the Royal Military College, Duntroon ACT)
- School(s) Attended
- Geelong College
- Occupation
- Soldier
- Next of Kin
- Gladys Dean (mother), Hawthorn, Victoria
- Burial Place
No known grave
Unit and Rank Details
- Service Number
- 5328
- Final Rank
- Private
- Final Unit
- 24 Battalion AIF
Fate
Died (killed in action) Bullecourt, France on 3 May 1917 aged 21 years
Commemoration
Villers-Bretonneux Memorial, France
AWM Roll of Honour Memorial Panel 101, Canberra ACT
Notes
Dean entered the Royal Military College, Duntroon on 12 March 1914 in the fourth intake of cadets but was discharged on 13 December 1915. He embarked in August 1916 with the 14th reinforcements to the 24th Battalion, disembarking in England in September and arriving in France in November 1916. He was treated for influenza shortly afterwards but rejoined his unit in January 1917. He was killed in action on 3 May 1917 during the Second Battle of Bullecourt. According to a witness Dean "was killed near the Railway Embankment and was buried behind the embankment in the vicinity of Bullecourt."
Description - height 5 feet 11½ inches, weight 150 pounds, chest 33½ -35½ inches, fair complexion, blue eyes, fair hair, Church of England, scar on forehead, tattoo left forearm.
Sources
NAA RecordSearch - Series B2455 (First Australian Imperial Force Personnel Dossiers, 1914-1920)
WWI Nominal Roll http://www.awm.gov.au/nominalrolls/ww1
AWM Roll of Honour Database
AWM Roll of Honour Circular
AWM Red Cross Wounded and Missing Enquiry Files
AWM First World War Unit Embarkation Rolls
Colonel J.E. Lee, 'Duntroon: The Royal Military College of Australia 1911-1946', 1952