A group of items from the estate of Joseph Joylon Dean, comprising an unattributable WWII Military Cross group, Military Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated '1945', 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star with 8th Army Bar, Italy Star, Defence and War Medals, 1953 Coronation Medal plus Officer's Territorial Decoration, G.VI.R., reverse engraved '1950' with G.VI.R., E.II.R. and Territorial award Bars, good very fine, mounted for wearing together with a Tropical jacket with three pips to epaulettes and Highland Division cloth insignia, brass buttons of the Royal Artillery and Ubique collar badges, the medal riband bar for 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star with 8th Army emblem, France & Germany Star, with Battle dress and Army great coat Provenance: From the estate of 7880890 Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant Joseph Joylon Dean Royal Artillery Corps, Royal Tank Regiment (1921-2010). Dean was awarded the British Empire Medal which was Gazetted in the 13 June 1946 Supplement. The group included with the lot was consigned from the same estate. Dean joined 51st Highland Division, he was injured twice in Sicily and then in Normandy where he was wounded in a mortar attack a day after he landed, the Guardian obituary quotes a 'he looked down at his bleeding chest and noticed he was wearing his shirt back to front', interestingly his father was Basil Dean the founder of Ealing Film Studios. (4)
A group of items from the estate of Joseph Joylon Dean, comprising an unattributable WWII Military Cross group, Military Cross, G.VI.R., reverse officially dated '1945', 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star with 8th Army Bar, Italy Star, Defence and War Medals, 1953 Coronation Medal plus Officer's Territorial Decoration, G.VI.R., reverse engraved '1950' with G.VI.R., E.II.R. and Territorial award Bars, good very fine, mounted for wearing together with a Tropical jacket with three pips to epaulettes and Highland Division cloth insignia, brass buttons of the Royal Artillery and Ubique collar badges, the medal riband bar for 1939-1945 Star, Africa Star with 8th Army emblem, France & Germany Star, with Battle dress and Army great coat Provenance: From the estate of 7880890 Squadron Quarter Master Sergeant Joseph Joylon Dean Royal Artillery Corps, Royal Tank Regiment (1921-2010). Dean was awarded the British Empire Medal which was Gazetted in the 13 June 1946 Supplement. The group included with the lot was consigned from the same estate. Dean joined 51st Highland Division, he was injured twice in Sicily and then in Normandy where he was wounded in a mortar attack a day after he landed, the Guardian obituary quotes a 'he looked down at his bleeding chest and noticed he was wearing his shirt back to front', interestingly his father was Basil Dean the founder of Ealing Film Studios. (4)
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