Pair: Private A. Dean, Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry, killed at the Battle of the Somme, 21 July 1916

British War and Victory Medals (3627 Pte. A. Dean. Oxf. & Bucks. L.I.); Memorial Plaque (Archer Dean), with named card box of issue, and card envelope, and outer envelopes addressed to ‘Mr. R. Dean, Widmer End, High Wycombe, Bucks’, extremely fine (3) £140-180

Archer Dean was born in Hughenden, Buckinghamshire, and enlisted in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry at Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. He served with the 1/1st (Buckinghamshire) Battalion during the Great War and was killed in action on the Western Front on 21 July 1916, on which date the Battalion was in action south-west of Pozieres. Ordered to attack, the battalion could not push home owing to the large number of enemy machine guns, and although one party of a corporal and 6 men succeeded in entering the German line on the extreme right of the attack, casualties were heavy, with 4 officers and 7 other ranks killed, 3 officers and 97 other ranks wounded, and 1 officer and 42 other ranks missing. Dean was one of those killed, and he is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial, Somme, France.