Thomas Malcolm Dean

Thomas Malcolm Dean served as a Signalman in the R.C.C.S during WWII.

Thomas Malcolm and Rachel Manson Dean, married on October 16th, 1920. Thomas Malcolm Dean was born less than a year later on July 22nd, 1920.

Thomas grew up at 15 Wilton Crescent street, Ottawa, Ontario, with his parents, and studied at Glebe Collegiate High School as a teenager. He documented that he had no siblings, and never married nor had children of his own.

His pre-enlistment Medical examination declared him perfectly healthy, and he was reported to have fair skin, dark brown hair, and blue eyes.

Dean joined the R.C.C.S (Royal Canadian Corps of Signals), at the age of 19. Thomas was enlisted in the Canadian army as a Signalman on September 2nd, 1939.

As a Signalman in the R.C.C.S, his job was to be in charge of the communications between the front lines and the headquarters and every branch of the services was recorded and returned back or communicated back to whatever areas where it was necessary.

Thomas spent 347 days serving in the western Hemisphere, and 728 days overseas, coming to a combined total of 1075 days (2.9 years) of his life contributed to military service before his passing.

Thomas Malcolm Dean died on August 19th, 1942, at the age of 22. He was first reported missing, but was later revealed to have been killed in action overseas at Dieppe, France. He was one of the 4,963 Candians that embarked on the Dieppe raid on August 19th, 1942, and was one of the 916 Canadians that died there the same day.

Primary Source Documents : https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2316991?Thomas%20Malcolm%20Dean

References

Government of Canada. 2019. “Responsibilities of a Signalman - Video Gallery.” Veterans Affairs Canada. https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/video-gallery/video/5812.

Government of Canada. n.d. “Thomas Malcolm Dean - The Canadian Virtual War Memorial.” Veterans Affairs Canada. Accessed October 28, 2024. https://www.veterans.gc.ca/en/remembrance/memorials/canadian-virtual-war-memorial/detail/2316991?Thomas%20Malcolm%20Dean.

Government of Canada. NA. “Military records Collection search.” Collection search. https://recherche-collection-search.bac-lac.gc.ca/eng/Home/Search?DataSource=Genealogy|Military|Kia&ServiceNumber=C3501&.

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Glebe Collegiate Institute
Ottawa, Ontario
Canada

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