Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Four: Major Vincent Lee Dean, North Western Railway Regiment

British War and Victory Medals (A-T-Supdt. Mily. Rys.); India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Afghanistan N.W.F. 1919 (Ry. Dept.); Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, G.V.R., reverse inscribed, ‘Capt. V. L. Dean, 1 Bn. N.W. Ry. R., A.F.I.’, with top bar, mounted as worn, nearly very fine and better (4) £220-260

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, Long Service Medals from the Collection formed by John Tamplin.

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Vincent Lee Dean was born in Castle Church, Stafford on 21 March 1891. Dean was employed by the Indian North West Railway as an Assistant Traffic Superintendent on 8 November 1914. He was promoted to Assistant District Traffic Superintendent in January 1922; Officiating District Traffic Superintendent in April 1925, and Divisional Transport Officer in April 1928. Early on in the Great War he had served as a Corporal in the Cheshire Yeomanry, August-October 1914. As an Assistant Traffic Superintendent, Dean was awarded the British War and Victory Medals and India General Service Medal. He was appointed a Lieutenant in the 1-24th North Western Railway Volunteer Battalion on 1 April 1917 and was advanced to Captain on 1 April 1926. He was awarded the Indian Volunteer Forces Officers’ Decoration, notified in the Gazette of India of 10 December 1932. He attained the rank of Major on 15 March 1936. Sold with copied research.