Name
Horace Dean
1891
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
08/10/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
265784
Hertfordshire Regiment
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
1914 (Mons) Star (with Clasp & Roses), British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
VIS-EN-ARTOIS MEMORIAL
Panel 10.
France
Headstone Inscription
N/A
UK & Other Memorials
Hertfordshire Regimental Memorial, All Saints Church, Hertford, Sunnyside Memorial, Berkhamsted
Pre War
Horace Dean was born in 1891 in Berkhamsted, Herts, the son of Joseph and Eliza Dean and one of eight children. He was baptised on 24 January 1892 in Great Berkhamsted.
On the 1901 Census the family were living at 13 Gravel Path, Berkhamsted where his father was working as a carpenter. They remained there in 1911 at which time Horace was working as a carpenter like his father. They were both employed at a chemical manufacturers.
He was a former Scoutmaster at Berkhamsted.
Wartime Service
It is likely that Horace was already in the Territorial Force of the Hertfordshire Regiment and had some military training when war broke out. His regimental number of 3009 (later renumbered in 1917 to 265784) suggests he enlisted between September and November 1914. He was sent to France on 6 November 1914 having left from Bury St Edmunds and sailed to Le Havre on the "City of Chester".
They were soon under fire in trenches and were shelled near Zillebeke, receiving the first casualties.
Horace was killed in action on 8 October 1918 during the Battle of Cambrai. He has no known grave and his name is commemorated on the Vis-en-Artois Memorial, France.
Additional Information
His father received a war gratuity of £18 10s and pay owing of £11 1s 0d.
His mother died in 1912 and his older sister Ellen Dean was probably left to be housekeeper for the family. Ellen applied for a dependant's pension but there is no indication that one was granted.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
Jonty Wild, www.roll-of-honour.com., www.bedfordregiment.org.uk/Hertsrgt
