500646 Dvr. Albert H. Dean British Army 527th Horse Transport Coy. Army Service Corps from:New Malden, Surrey (d.27th Nov 1918) My Grandmother's Uncle Albert H Dean; an ambulance man from New Malden
in Surrey, survived almost to the last day of the war only to die in the 10th Military Hospital in France of
bronch-pneumonia, leaving a young and devoted widow named Mabel and two very young sons.
Albert had asked his cousin to "look after Mabel and the boys" should anything happen to him. His cousin
married Mabel and did take good care of his boys. I am in possession of Albert H Dean's original military
death certificate and I was lucky enough to meet his 95 year old surviving son, Arthur Dean, a couple of years back
who was able to describe the day that they received word that his father had died and was to be buried at Rouen.
Arthur Dean still commemorates his father's life - all of these many years later - on Armistice Day. He cried when
I was able to hand over a small Bible (which had been left to me amongst family papers and photos and other memorabilia)
that had once belonged to his father when his father was a boy.
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