Lieutenant Maurice Dease

Regiment: 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers
Date published: 04/12/1914
Killed in action: Yes
Date of death: 23/08/1914
Age at death: 24
Cemetery: St. Symphorien Military Cemetery, Hainaut, Belgium
Plot: V. B. 2.
Information: Lieutenant Maurice Dease V.C., 4th Battalion Royal Fusiliers, killed in action at the Battle of Mons on the 23rd August, 1914, Lieutenant Dease was the only son of Mr. Edmund F. Dease, Culmullen, Co. Meath. He was born in 1889, and was educated at Stonyhurst and Wimbledon, whence he passed into Sandhurst in 1909, and was gazetted to the Royal Fusiliers in 1910. Lieutenant Dease was machine gun officer of his Battalion, and was in command of the guns which were placed to protect the crossing of Canal Bridge at Nimy, north of Mons; he was wounded several times while working the guns until he and nearly all the machine detachment were killed. He was mentioned in Despatches by Sir John French and awarded the V.C. Lieutenant Dease was heir presumptive to his uncle, Major Dease, of Turbotston, Co. Meath, who also served in the Royal Fusiliers.