Summary

Donald Dean lied about his age to enlist in the army and serve on the Western Front where he worked his way up from Private to acting Captain.

Donald Dean lied about his age to enlist in the army 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 the Victoria Cross for leading a platoon in the determined defence of a recently-captured and isolated trench.