NAM.2001-01-233-1

Photograph of officers, 4/5th Bn The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), Territorial Army, Annual Camp, Colchester, 1927. From the collection of the former Buffs Regimental Museum. Top row: 2/Lt R J Cheney; Lt G R Warner, Lt D P Iggulden; Lt R S Poile; Lt J Sherwood; 2/Lt E G Parish; Lt C H M Brooke; Lt M B Hewitt; 2/Lt G H Mount. Seated: Capt and QM F H Keeler; Capt G D Bacon; Capt C S F Witts; Capt G R Howe: Maj B S Collard; Lt Col E B Burns (Commanding); Capt B E Hammond-Davies MC (Adjutant) Capt D V Coote; Maj D J Dean VC; Capt A E L Hardcastle. Maj (later Colonel) Donald John Dean VC was commissioned in the Royal West Kent Regiment in 1916, having served as a private on the Western Front with the 28th London (Artists Rifles) Regiment. He won his VC in September 1918, when as a temporary lieutenant, he led the defence of an advance post in a captured German trench against several counterattacks.