Pvt. Albert Gittens Dean 203940 formerly 9534, 26832, bn Hackney, London, 19th Aug 1882. Enlisted Enfield 2 Dec 1915, to Army Reserve 3 Dec 1915, Mobilized 25 Mar 1916, to 6 Royal Fusiliers 26 Mar 1916, to 3/19 London Regiment 19 Jun 1916, to 1/7 Middlesex 30 June 1916. To France 1 Jul 1916. Missing presumed killed on or about 16 Sep 1916 during an 1/7 Middlesex assault from Leuze Wood into and around Bouleaux Wood, between the villages of Ginchy and Combles in the Picardie region of France. Albert has no known grave but is commemorated at the Thiepval Memorial in France. He is also commemorated on the gravestone of his parents, Alfred Amos Dean and Fanny Elizabeth Dean nee Wood, at St Peter and St Paul, Lingfield. Prior to Military Service Albert was a house decorator working with his father in South London, where the family had moved to when Albert was about five years old. He was not married and had no children. Some military records mistakenly show his middle name as “Gitters”.Earlier civilian records suggest Albert’s middle name, “Gittens”, came from an untraced ancestor of Fanny’s father. After WWI Fanny was issued the standard circular commemorative bronze plaque of the Government’s Memorial Plaque Factory, 54/56 Church Road, Acton, W3, London, later production type that has a batch number just behind the lion's back leg. The standard commemorative scroll from King George V that was issued with Albert’s plaque is long lost.