251798 L/Sgt. Edgar Lionel Freemantle British Army 2nd Battalion East Kent Regiment from:Gillingham, Kent (d.23rd September 1918) I never really knew that much about my paternal great uncle, Edgar Freemantel, until I researched through the Commonwealth War Graves Commission Website.
I had often heard his name mentioned in conversation by my grandmother and father but as a child I was kept in the dark. Being an ex serviceman myself, I wanted to know more about him. I found that he had died due to influenza approximately a month before my father's birth. I'm almost certain that had they have had the news before, my father would have had his name.
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