Thomas Dean enlisted in the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) at the age of 14.5 years old in October 1915. He was killed in action at the age of 18 on August 27, 1917. Dean was commemorated along with 102,000 other soldiers who died during World War I. Anzac Day on April 25 and Remembrance Day on November 11 are occasions to honor Australian and New Zealand soldiers who fought in wars including Dean and those who died in World War I.

2. THE GREAT WAR
• Name: Thomas Dean
• Age of enlistment: Unknown
• Date of enlistment: 5 October 1915
• Where he enlisted : A.I.F
• Came to Australia at 14 ½ years old.

3. • Rank: Private [PTE]
• Battle Fought: Unknown
• Killed or Wounded: Killed – 27.8.1917
Died of wound at 18 years old.
• His calling was to learn how to fruit farm.

4. • School: Gorden Municipal
• Awards or Honors: None
• Return to Australia: Died 1917
• How and Where Commemorated: Tom Dean was
commemorated with the 102,000 soldiers that died at war.

6. ANZAC DAY AND REMEMBRANCE
DAY
• Anzac day is the 25th of April. It
was to honour the Australian and
New Zealand Army Corps
(ANZAC) who fought at
Gallipoli in Turkey during World
War 1.
• The Anzac spirit is a concept which
suggests that Australian and New
Zealand soldiers shared
characteristics and the qualities these
soldiers had was shown on the
battlefield in World War I

7. Remembrance day
• Remembrance Day, is a day we
commemorate the soldiers in time of
war, especially those in WW1. It is
commemorated on the 11th November
to recall the end of the war in 1918.
The 11th hour of the 11th day of the
11th month.

8. • The association of the red poppy with
battlefield deaths was a natural symbol to
show resurrection and remembrance dates back
to the Napoleonic Wars when poppies were
the first plant to grow in the churned up soil
of soldiers' graves in the area of Flanders.
• Canadian Medical
Officer, began the process
by which the Flanders
Poppy became
immortalised worldwide
as the symbol of
remembrance

9. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.

10. They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.