Donald Dean VC

by Terry Crowdy and Susan Bavin

Donald Dean lied about his age to enlist in the Queen's Own Royal West Kent Regiment and serve on the Western Front, where he worked his way up from Private to acting Captain. It was in the last weeks of the war, late in September 1918, that he won his VC for leading a platoon in the determined defense of a recently captured and isolated trench against repeated German counterattacks. In one of these attacks, the Germans actually broke into the trench,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1473877156
• ISBN13: 9781473877153
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Pen & Sword Books
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.1"