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Drvr. George Deacon
British Army Army Service Corps
George Deacon sigbned his attestation on the 11th of December 1915 in Rugeley. Aged 18 years 3 months, he was a Coachman & Gardener by trade. He served in Salonica from the 3rd of January 1917 and suffered from malaria in June 1918 and again in Sept 1919. He was discharged on the 3rd of January 1920. He was the son-in-law of Henry and Frances Parker, being married to their daughter Constance A Parker, who was the sister of Thomas Parker and Bill Parker, who also both served.
A/Sjt. John William Deacon
from:40 Clark Street, Leicester
My mother’s grandfather was in the First World War his name was John William Deacon, he was born in 1877 at 40 Clark Street, Leicester. He was in the R.H.A. before he went in to the corps he was a steeple jack, which we didn’t know until I started to research him. He fell 40 foot down a chimney, after that he joined up. I have photos of him in uniform with some of his men and with his wife Sarah Pryor who was born in Barkby Leicester in 1872, they married in 1904
We know that before the regiment went to fight they did there training on Salisbury Plain and then went out to Egypt and were based in Mustafa.
On the 5th of September he got in to some sort of trouble and he got 7 days field punishment N0.2 and on 30th Dec 1916 he forfeits 3 days pay under royal warrant for Absence. On his medical record he was sent home due to his knee problem, when he embarked home he came back via Caldonia, Portsaid
We would like to know more about the Egyptian Exp. Force as we don’t know much about them and the x a park raf at Romtaraonm where he was employed in packing duties in 1918.
A/Cpl. John Deacon
British Army 11th Btn. North Staffordshire Regiment
(d.9th Nov 1918)
John Deacon signed his attestation on the 7th of Aug 1915. His age given as 19 years 4 months. (He was actually only 16 years and 2 months of age.) He was a Carter by trade. He was posted to 11th Battalion North Staffordshire Regiment on the 22nd of June 1916 which moved to Rugeley Camp on Cannock Chase as a Reserve Training Battalion. John served until the 20th of Sept 1916 when he was discharged for serving under military age.
He rejoined in July or August 1917 aged 18 years 1 month. Giving his trade as Tanner He served in the reserve with 53rd Battalion West Yorkshire Regiment until he died of pneumonia on the 9th of Nov 1918. He is buried in Colton, Staffordshire. He was the brother of George Deacon
Cpl. Richard Deacon
British Army 18th Btn. Durham Light Infantry
Pte. William Archie Deacon
British Army 7th Field Ambulance Royal Army Medical Corps
from:Nuneaton
(d.26th September 1917)
William Deacon was born on the 21st May 1894 in Nuneaton, son of George & Elizabeth Deacon of 2 Market Place, Nuneaton. He was educated at Bedford Modern School, possibly as a boarder, and later trained as a Dentists Assistant.
On the 21st August 1914 he enlisted at Nuneaton with the 7th Field Ambulance, Royal Army Medical Corps. He was killed in action on the 26th of September 1917 age 23 years at Ypres. He is buried in Ypres Reservoir Cemetery, Belgium. A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1908-09, he is commemorated on the SchoolWar Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923. Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
Pte. Alfred Joseph Deadman
British Army 17th Battalion Middlesex Regiment
from:Southfields, Surrey
(d.1st Aug 1916)
My Grandfather, Alfred Deadman enlisted at Kingsway London on 16th March 1915. He was employed as a butler and had married my Grandmother Bessie Louisa Baldwin on 25th July 1911. He served from 16th March 1915 at home and then served in France from 17th November 1915 until he was killed in action on 1st August 1916. He is buried at the Quarry, Mauntaubaun. My Grandfather's name appears on the war memorial at St. Margaret's Church in Kirstead, Norfolk.
Pte. Alfred Deadman
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Sussex Regiment
from:Northfleet, Kent
(d.9th September 1916)
Alfred Deadman who died, age 42, on 9th September 1916 was the son of the late John Deadman of Northfleet, Kent. Alfred is remembered with honour in the Caterpillar Valley Cemetery, Longueval.
Gnr. Archibald Henry Deadman
British Army 45th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Home Farm, Peper Harow, Nr Godalming, Surrey
Archibald Deadman was attested on 13/11/1914 at Newhaven and posted to 22nd Company on the 14/12/14, followed by the 18th Company on the 8/2/1915. The 18th and 22nd Companies were Sheeness, Eastern Coast Defences. He was posted to the 45th Siege Battery on the 17/7/1915, on the 31/9/1915 the Battery embarked at Southampton, disembarking at Boulogne on the 1/9/1915. He served with the 45th throughout the war except for a short posting between 2/5/1918 and 8/10/1918 to II Corps Supply Column Rgt. He was embarked at Boulogne on the 16/1/1919 and demobed at Shorncliffe on 18/2/1919.
Pte. Edward Maurice Deadman
British Army 5th Battalion Wiltshire Regiment
from:Devizes
(d.10th Aug 1915)
Edward Deadman was killed in action in Gallipoli on 10th of August 1915.
Rflmn. Frank Deadman
British Army 16th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corps
from:Malmesbury, Wiltshire
(d.25th October 1917)
Frank Deadman is buried in Wimereux Communal Cemetery.
Pte. John Deakin
British Army 14th Battalion Gloucestershire Regiment
(d.22nd October 1917)
John Deakin was born in January 1897 and was originally in the Herefordshire Regiment when he joined up, but was transferred to the Gloucestershire Regiment. He was killed at Houthulst Forest in Belgium. Remembered at Tyne Cot memorial
Pte. John Deakin
British Army Gloucestershire Regiment
(d.22nd October 1914)
John Deakin was killed at the Battle of Passchendaele on 22nd of October 1914. His brother Willian survived and came home and his half brother also survived WW1. John was originally from Pipe Ast on the Herefordshire, Shropshire borders. He was 20 years of age.
Pte. William Deakin
British Army 8th Btn. North Staffordshire Rgt.
from:Mossley, Lancashire
(d.19th April 1918)
William Deakin was my great grandfather. He was the father of my father's mother. He came from Mossley in Lancashire near Ashton Under Lyne. To date, I know very little about him apart from the fact he was killed in action on 19th April 1918 and is buried at Tyne Cot military Cemetery, Belgium.
Pte. John Deamer
British Army 4th Battalion Middlesex Regiment
from:44 Mersey St. Notting Hill
(d.2nd July 1916)
Pte. William James Deamer
British Army 2nd Battalion Manchester Regiment
from:11 Calvert Rd. Barnet
(d.11th July 1916)
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.
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.
Pte. Arthur Dean
British Army 8th Btn. Royal West Surrey Regiment
from:Caterham, Surrey
(d.28th Jul 1918 )
Born 29th July 1897 in Warlingham, Surrey, Arthur Dean was the fourth of eight children, having one older brother and two younger. His elder brother survived the war, having been in the Royal Field and Horse Artillery. His other brothers were too young to enlist. His sisters were married to soldiers and they also survived.
Pte. Daniel Dean
British Army 24th (Tyneside Irish) Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Workington
(d.1st July 1916)
Pte. Edward Dean
British Army
My father Edward Dean was wounded during WW1 and spent some time in the Lord Derby Military Hospital at Winwick nr Warrington. I do not have any further info but would be interested in Winwick records.
Pte. Ellis Dean
British Army 2nd Btn. Lancashire Fusiliers
from:'Mulsford', Piercefield Rd., Formby, Lancashire
(d.3rd May 1917)
Ellis Dean's mother was my grandmother's sister. She moved to Liverpool from Londonderry to work and married Ellis Dean Snr. Ellis Dean Jnr's Uncle and cousin were both killed at Thiepval on 1st July 1916, serving with 10th Btn. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers.
Pte. Frederick Dean
British Army 7th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Stafford
(d.22nd Aug 1915)
Great Uncle Fred Dean died at Gallipoli just after arriving, age 23.
Pte. Frederick Dean
British Army 12th Btn. Yorkshire Regiment
from:Jarrow
(d.11th Apr 1918)
Frederick Dean died age 35. He was born in Jarrow in 1883 and lived there. He enlisted at Wallsend. He was the son of Charles and Margaret Dean (nee Brice) of Jarrow. On the 1911 census he is listed as Frederick Dean age 28, Tube worker at Tube Works, lodging with his sister and brother in law, Marian and Charles Anderson, at 7 Charles Street, Jarrow
Frederick is buried in Croix-Du-Bac British Cemetery Steenwerck and is commemorated on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Rflmn. Frederick George Dean
British Army 8th Btn. King's Royal Rifle Corp
from:3 White Horse Hill, Chislehurst, Kent
(d.29th September 1917)
Pte. Frederick Dean
British Army 5th Btn. Cheshire Regiment
from:Altrincham
Sgt. George Pocock Buxton Dean
British Army 1st Btn. Royal West Surrey Regiment
from:Chiswick
(d.31st Oct 1914)
My Grandfather, George Dean, husband of Ann Dean of 61 Sherwood St, Reading. He was an ambulance driver in Chiswick before the war. He served with the 1st Battalion, Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment during WW1 and died on the 31st October 1914. A memorial tablet in the shape of a shield was installed in the Fire Station & unveiled by the Vicar of Chiswick on 24 May 1921. Inscribed "In honoured memory of the following members of the Chiswick Fire Brigade who gave their lives in the Great War 1914-1918" - the 2 names on it were G.P.B. Dean and H. MacDonald.
Pte. George Dean
British Army 7th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Walsall
(d.4th June 1917)
George Dean died on the 4th of June 1917, aged 22. Buried in the Bailleul Communal Cemetery Extension in France, he was the son of William and Amelia Dean, of Back 72 Green Lane, Walsall.
Sgt. Harry Michael Dean
Australian Imperial Forces 1st Australian Tunnelling Coy.
Pte. Harry Thomas Dean
British Army 1st Btn. Wiltshire Regiment
(d.1st Sept 1918)
Pte. Harry Dean MM.
British Army 1/6th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Birmingham
Harry Dean received the Military Medal on 30th of September 1917 at Dambre Camp. He was gassed and lost a lung, was sent home and survived to live on after the end of the war.
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