Name
George Henry Dean
1887
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/08/1919
32
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
203137
Essex Regiment
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LONG MARSTON (ALL SAINTS) CHURCHYARD
Left of entrance gate.
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
AT REST
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Long Marston memorials, Not on the Tring memorials
Pre War
George Henry Dean was born in Long Marston, Tring in 1887 to Henry Dean, farm labourer, and Martha E (Woolhead).
On the 1891 Census the family of parents, Charlotte (born 1885), George, and William (born 1890) were living in Long Marston, Tring.
On the 1901 Census the family of parents, George, William, Annie (born 1895) and Arthur (born 1899) were living at Cheddington Lane, Long Marston.
On the 1911 Census the family of parents, George (railway porter), William (cowman), Arthur and Maurice (born 1907) were living at Cheddington Road, Long Marston.
George married Ethel Annie (unknown). They lived at 29 Gray Road, Northampton. Ethel had died while George was serving in the Army.
Wartime Service
George attested on 5 Jul 1915 as Private 4459 in 3rd/4th Battalion, the Northamptonshire Regiment. He was appointed acting Sergeant Cook on 19 Oct 1916, reverting to Private on 2 Feb 1917. He was posted to 17 Infantry Base Depot in France on18 Dec 1917 and on 29 Dec he was posted to 1st Battalion, Essex Regiment and renumbered as 203137. He gained a promotion to unpaid Lance Corporal on 24 Jan 1918. In 1918 his Battalion was transferred in to 112 Brigade, 37 Division defending against the German Spring offensive and George was wounded in the forehead on 17 Mar 1918. He was treated at 3 Canadian Hospital at Camiers and at St John’s Ambulance Brigade Hospital, Etaples before being evacuated to UK and sent to Craiglockhart as there remained some shrapnel in the wound. He was discharged as Medically unfit for Service on 22 May 1918.
George died at home on 16 Aug 1919.
Additional Information
Silver War Badge number 392836 awarded.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Jonty Wild
