Name
Frederick Thomas Freeman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
11/06/1918
24
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
103455
Sherwood Foresters (Notts and Derby Regiment)
10th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
POZIERES MEMORIAL
Panel 52 to 54.
France
UK & Other Memorials
Holy Cross Church Memorial, Sarratt
Pre War
Born in 1894 in Sarratt, Hertfordshire son of Frederick George and Rebecca Freeman later of 35 New Road, Croxley Green. He was a gardener.
Wartime Service
Enlisted on 1 Sep 1914 at St Albans formerly 13027, Bedfordshire Regiment. He was slightly wounded in action by a gunshot wound to the left wrist on 4 Sep 1916 but recovered and returned to his Regiment on 30 Oct 1916. He was again more severely wounded by a gunshot wound to the left side of his head with fractured skull on 10 May 1917 and was treated at the Lord Derby War Hospital in Warrington and left hospital on 5 Jun 1917 to return to the fight entering Boulogne on 18 Jul 1917. He was transferred to the Sherwood Foresters on 7 Apr 1918 and was killed in action on the Somme.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
