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Cecil Augustus DEAN

Regimental number4475
Place of birthMoore Park, New South Wales
ReligionChurch of England
OccupationCommercial traveller
AddressForest Road, Arncliffe, New South Wales
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation22
Height5' 5"
Weight109 lbs
Next of kinFather, Mr C Dean, Cheltenham Avenue, Sandringham, New South Wales
Previous military serviceNil
Enlistment date5 November 1915
Place of enlistmentCasula, New South Wales
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name4th Battalion, 14th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number23/21/4
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Sydney, New South Wales, on board HMAT A62 Wandilla on 3 February 1916
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll45th Battalion
FateKilled in Action 8 August 1916
Place of burialOvillers Military Cemetery (Plot XIV, Row O, Grave No 7), Ovillers la Boiselle, France
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
139
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Originally listed as 'No known grave' and recorded on the Australian National Memorial, Villers-Bretonneux. Remains discovered in 1936 and reinterred in Ovillers Military Cemetery. Watch presented by his employers on his leaving for the war was found with the remains and returned to his brother and sister. Father: Charles Augustus Dean, d. 6 April 1936.
Other details

War service: Egypt, Western Front

Embarked Sydney, 13 February 1916; disembarked Alexandria, 7 March 1916.

Taken on strength, 45th Bn, Tel el Kebir, 31 March 1916.

Embarked Alexandria to join the British Expeditionary Force, 2 June 1916; disembarked Marseilles, France, 8 June 1916.

Killed in action, 8 August 1916.

Medals: British War Medal, Victory Medal
SourcesNAA: B2455, DEAN Cecil Augustus

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