Name
James Spencer Freeman
1889
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
16/04/1918
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
19667
Dorsetshire Regiment
1st Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
ST. SEVER CEMETERY EXTENSION, ROUEN
P. IX. P. 1A.
France
Headstone Inscription
None
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bishop's Stortford memorials,
St Barnabas Church Memorial, Foleshill, Coventry,
Finedon War Memorial, Northamptonshire
Pre War
James Spencer Freeman was born in Finedon, Northamptonshire in 1889 to John and Lucy Ann Freeman. His father died in 1890 aged 42. On the 1911 Census he was living with his widowed mother and brother Herbert at The Nook, Balsall Street, Coventry, Warwickshire and working as a milkman. (N.B. 1911 Census incorrectly says he was born in Coventry) He married Emma Reid in Bishop's Stortford in late 1917.
Wartime Service
He enlisted in Bishop's Stortford and served with the 1st Battalion Dorsetshire Regiment. He died of wounds received in action in one of the many hospitals in Rouen, on 16 April 1918.
Additional Information
His widow Emma received a war gratuity of £6 and pay owing of £9 5s 2d. She also received a pension of 13s 9d a week from 21 October 1918.
Acknowledgments
Brenda Palmer
