BORN HULL 30/09/1894. SECOND SON OF FREDERICK ROBERT DEAN & SARAH DEAN, OF 9, BURLEIGH GROVE, COURTNEY STREET, HULL (1911 CENSUS) AND 104, HIGH STREET, HULL (CWGC ADDRESS) SON OF A LITHOGRAPHER. ONE OF THREE CHILDREN. A LABOURER AND EX RECKITT’S WORKER. DESCRIBED AS 5 FOOT, 8.5 INCHES TALL, 36 INCH CHEST, BLUE EYES, DARK BROWN HAIR.
HE ENLISTED AS A STOKER IN THE ROYAL NAVY, ON 29/03/1913. DROWNED AT THE BATTLE OF JUTLAND, 31/05/1916, AGED 21. COMMEMORATED ON THE PORTSMOUTH NAVAL MEMORIAL.
HMS INVINCIBLE exploded during the battle of Jutland after she was hit five times by shells from the German battlecruisers DERRFLINGER and LUTZOW, the last hit blowing the roof off “Q” turret and setting fire to the cordite propellant, the flash soon spread to the magazine and INVINCIBLE was ripped in two by the explosion. There were only SIX survivors with those 1,023 killed, including Rear-Admiral The Hon Horace Hood.
