Officers, 4/5th Battalion The Buffs (East Kent Regiment), Territorial Army, Annual Camp, Colchester, 1927

Photograph, S H Brock, Dover, 1927.

Standing (left to right): 2nd Lieutenant R J Cheney; Lieutenant G R Warner, Lieutenant D P Iggulden; Lieutenant R S Poile; Lieutenant John Sherwood; 2nd Lieutenant E G Parish; Lieutenant Cecil Henry Martin Brooke; Lieutenant M B Hewitt; 2nd Lieutenant G H Mount.

Seated: Captain and Quartermaster F H Keeler; Captain G D Bacon; Captain C S F Witts; Captain G R Howe: Major B S Collard; Lieutenant-Colonel E B Burns (Commanding); Captain B E Hammond-Davies MC (Adjutant) Captain D V Coote; Major D J Dean VC; Captain A E L Hardcastle.

Major (later Colonel) Donald John Dean VC was commissioned in the Royal West Kent Regiment in 1916, having served as a private on the Western Front with the 28th London (Artists Rifles) Regiment. He won his Victoria Cross in September 1918 when, as a temporary lieutenant, he led the defence of position in a captured German trench against several counterattacks.