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Dvr. Alfred William Dean
British Army Royal Engineers
from:Caversham, Berkshire
(d.9th Dec 1918)
Alfred Dean was wounded in France and sent back to England and he sent a post card to his sister with a view of Christ Church College, Cambridge in March 1918.
Later he was sent to No 5 War Hospital, Reading to be nearer his wife and family. Survived the war, but died of flu and pneumonia on the 9th of December 1918.
He is buried in Hemdean Rd, Cemetery. His youngest daughter was buried in the same grave later when she died aged 10 in 1929. Her name is not on the headstone, as it is a war grave. Information about his daughter is from Superintendent Reading Cemeteries who supplied location of his grave.