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Pte. James Dean
British Army 1/5th Battalion East Lancashire Regiment
from:71 Scott Street, Burnley
(d.31st August 1918)
My Uncle James Dean was killed eight weeks before the Armistice. He was the oldest of ten children born to William and Sarah Jane Dean in a small village called Wiswell near Whalley Lancs.
He enlisted with his younger brother, William, but only Billy was to return home. James is mentioned on a memorial in Wiswell of which was his old school, also he is on a plaque inside Habergham All Saints Church, Burnley. He lived just down the road from the Church on Scott Street when he enlisted.
The family always thought he was buried in Padiham Cemetery with our Grandmother but by searching my family tree I found his grave in Bagneux British Cemetery, Gezaincourt, France. Since this discovery two of my cousins have visited the grave.
My hope is to visit this year on the hundred anniversary of James's death.
