Awards & Winners

Maurice Dease

Date of Birth 28-September-1889
Place of Birth Coole, County Westmeath
(Ireland, County Westmeath)
Nationality United Kingdom
Also know as Maurice James Dease
Profession Soldier
Maurice James Dease VC was a British Army officer during the First World War. He was one of the first British officer battle casualties of the war and the first posthumous recipient of the Victoria Cross in the war.

Awards by Maurice Dease

Check all the awards nominated and won by Maurice Dease.

1914


Victoria Cross
(In recognition of most conspicuous bravery that took place on 23rd August 1914 as a Lieutenant in the 4th Battalion, The Royal Fusiliers during the Great War., Posthumously awarded.)