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World War 1 One ww1 wwII greatwar great 1914 1918 first battalion regiment
2nd Lt. David George Frater MC.
British Army A Battery, 255th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
(d.16th Apr 1918)
Pte. Anthony Frazer
British Army 1/4th Battalion Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Prudhoe, Northumberland
Anthony Frazer enlisted in the 4th Battalion, Northumberland Fusiliers on 3rd September 1914 and embarked for Boulogne on the 20th of April 1915. The Battle of St Julien was their first taste of action on 26th of April 1915. On the 28th of June 1915 he was granted sick furlough, suggesting he was wounded at St. Julien and returned to the reserve battalion at home. He was posted to A Company on the 14th of June 1915 Between 12th and 26th of July 1915 he was granted leave for haymaking. On the 23rd of July he was granted 2d/day kit allowance. Between 9th and 16th of August he was again granted leave for haymaking and then granted weekend leave from the 21st to 23rd of August. From the 25th of August to 6th of September 1915 he was granted leave for harvesting and from the 8th to 11th of the same month granted four days furlough. On the 19th he was drafted for BEF reinforcement and from the 25th is no longer included in 4th Reserve Battalion at home.
Following being wounded for the first time at St. Julien, Anthony returned to France or Belgium in September 1915. At some point he was given the new number of 200433 and was promoted to Corporal. And then in the Newcastle Journal on 29th of November 1917 he is listed as wounded. He survived the war.
Pte George Frazer
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Harcourt St. Dublin
(d.27th August 1914)
George Frazer was killed on the 27th of August 1914. George's niece, Elizabeth Killeen her husband visited his grave in Honnechy Cemetery, about six miles from town of Le Cateau in France on 15th April 2011. Elizabeth's brother-in-law, Maurice McGrath, also attended.
Pte George Frazer
British Army 2nd Btn. Royal Dublin Fusiliers
from:Pembroke Street, Dublin
(d.27th August 1914)
Sjt. Hugh Frazer
British Army 2nd Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
(d.11th May 1915)
Hugh Frazer died of wounds and is buried at Hazebrouck Communal Cemetery.
Sgt James Isaac Frazer
British Army 8th Btn Royal Irish Rifles
CQMS John Frazer
British Army 5th Btn. Royal Irish Fusiliers
from:Armagh
Pte. Matthew Frazer
British Army 1/4th Btn. Northumberland Fusiliers
from:Prudhoe, Northumberland
(d.26th Oct 1917)
Matthew Frazer was one of five brothers who joined the Northumberland Fusiliers, Durham Light Infantry and the Border Regiment. Matthew with his brother Anthony and nephew William all embarked on 20th of April 1915. All three were wounded shortly after at the battle of St. Julien on 26th of April.
After returning to France, Matthew also fought at Flers Courcelette in September 1916. He was killed in action on 26th October 1917 at Turrenne Crossing on the first day of the final battle of Passchendaele. His brothers were all wounded in various battles but survived the war. The family received the sum Ć‚Ā£14 as a war gratuity.
2Lt Alexander John Freakes
Royal Field Artillery D Coy 161st Brigade
from:25 Garden St, Westminster
(d.3rd Sep 1918)
Pte. Clyde Frearson
British Army 8th Btn. South Staffordshire Regiment
from:Leicester
Cpl. Charles Fredericks MM & Bar.
British Army 23rd Siege Battery Royal Artillery
from:Southampton
(d.2nd Jan 1919)
Sgt. William Fredericks
British Army Northamptonshire Regiment
from:London
(d.18th February 1917)
William Fredericks started in 1903 as a Private with 1st Battalion of the East Surrey Regiment. He was sent to France in 1914 where he was wounded in the same year.
At some point he transferred to the Northamptonshire Regiment and fought at the Battle for Boom Ravine. He was wounded again on the 17th February 1917 and died from his wounds the next day on the 18th February 1917. He is buried at Varennes Military Cemetery.
Cpl. William Albert Free
British Army 8th Btn. C Coy. King's Regiment (Liverpool)
from:Liverpool
William Free was captured on the 31st of July 1917 near Ypres and held as a prisoner of war at Dulmen Camp.
2/Lt. Eric Charles Freear
British Army 4th Btn Bedfordshire Regiment
(d.15th April 1917)
Second Lieutenant Eric Charles Freear, son of Harry Marshall and Margaret Ann Freear, Harpenden, Herts. Educated Bedford Modern School, 1909-1911. Served with the 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment.
He was killed in action on 15th April 1917 age 20 years and is buried in Bailleul Road East Cemetery, France. He is remembered on The War Memorial, St. Andrews Church, Ampthill.
Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
2nd.Lt. Eric Charles Freear
British Army 4th Btn. Bedfordshire Regiment
from:Harpenden, Herts.
(d.15th April 1917)
Eric Freear was born in 1897 in Harpenden, Hertfordshire, the son of Harry Marshall and Margaret Ann Freear (she died just 5 weeks before Eric). His father had originally come from Ampthill, Bedfordshire. The 1911 census shows Eric living with his parents at Hardwick road, Woburn Sands, Buckinghamshire, he later lived with his uncle Mr. A.E.Anscombe, architect, living in Harpenden and was an engineer working at Vauxhall, Luton.
Eric served with the 4th Battalion, Bedfordshire Regiment and was killed in action on 15th April 1917 aged 20 years, during the Battle of Arras. He is buried in Bailleul Road East Cemetery, Laurant-Blangy and is remembered on both the War Memorial Cross in the centre of Harpenden village and The War Memorial, St. Andrews church, Ampthill. A pupil of Bedford Modern School 1907-14, commemorated on the School War Memorial, which was unveiled in 1923 and in the Roll of Honour, published in The Eagle, December 1923.Information courtesy of www.roll-of-honour.com
Pte. George Samuel William Freebairn
British Army 10th Btn. Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders
(d.5th Dec 1916)
George Freebairn served with the 10th Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders.
Pte. James Logan Freebairn
Australian Imperial Forces 9th Australian Machine Gun Coy
from:Helensburgh, NSW.
(d.2nd Oct 1917)
Pte Albert Charles Freeman
Australian Imperial Force 41st Battalion
from:Ayr, Qld
(d.11th June 1917)
Pte. Arthur Fredrick Freeman
British Army 10th Btn. Gloucestershire Regiment
(d.25th Sep 1915)
Sgt. Edmund Valentine Freeman
British Army 2/1st Battalion Essex Yeomanry
from:11 Churchill Rd., Great Yarmouth, Norfolk
(d.10th October 1918)
My grandfather, Serjeant Edmund Freeman, of the 2/1st Essex Yeomanry, was returning on leave from Ireland to his home in Great Yarmouth. He took passage, with many other service personnel from the Empire and the USA on the RMS Leinster.
RMS Leinster sailed from Dun Laoghaire (formerly Kingstown) just before 9.00am on 10th October 1918 and was on passage to Holyhead. Just before 10.00am she was torpedoed and sunk by German submarine UB-123. She went down just outside Dublin Bay at a point 4 nautical miles east of the Kish light. Over 500 people perished in the sinking, which is the greatest single loss of life in the Irish Sea.
My grandfather was just one of the 501 souls to perish out of the 771 people (crew and passengers) embarked. He was buried in the Commonwealth War Graves section of the Grangegorman Cemetery in Dublin. My grandfather left a widow, Clara, and three children, Edward (Teddy), Leslie and Phyllis, my mother. My grandmother remained a widow for a further 50 years.
UB-123 was commanded by Oberleutnant zur See Robert Ramm and was sunk with all hands on 19th October in a North Sea minefield on its passage back to Germany. The attack on a passenger ferry with the imminent end of the war already an undoubted fact was deemed an outrageous and unnecessary act of war.
Cpl. Frank George Bausor Freeman
British Army 173 Brigade, A Ć‚Ā Bty. Royal Field Artillery
(d.21st March 1918)
Frank Freeman was the son of the late George and Ada Freeman and husband to Daisy L. Freeman, 10 Stag Lane, Buckhurst Hill, Essex. He was 30 years old when he died and is commemorated on the Pozieres Memorial, Panel 7-10.
Pte. George Matthew Freeman
British Army 1/7th Btn. Royal Warwickshire Regiment
from:Kings Ripton, Huntingdonshire
(d.22nd Aug 1917)
George Freeman was born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, the eldest of 9 children. His mother died in childbirth when he was 15. Like his family, he worked the land as a horseman. He met his wife in Kings Ripton, Huntingdonshire while working on a farm. They married in 1912. In 1915 he joined the Huntingdon Cyclists then in 1916 he was transferred to the 1/7th Royal Warwickshire Regiment. He was wounded several times during several battles. Then on the 22nd Aug 1917 he was killed in action in Belgium, leaving behind his widow, Ethel, and two young boys. He was 26 years old. The following year his younger brother, Fred, was also killed in action in France age 19. He had only been in the field for 4 months. Also remembering his brother-in-law, Arthur, who was killed in Belgium in 1916 leaving a widow and baby that he'd never seen.
Boy2. Harry Freeman
Royal Navy HMS Revenge
from:Bedworth
Harry Freeman joined the Navy at 14 years of age .
A/Bmbdr. Harry Freeman
British Army 248th Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Lincoln Cottages, Brighton
(d.12th October 1917)
Harry Freeman was killed in action at the First Battle of Passchendaele, age 40, just 16 days before his daughter, my grandmother, was born. Harryā€™s friend, Charlie Tree, later married his widow, Lily, keeping a promise to look after her and his 13 children that he would do so if he was killed. Originally buried at Pill Box Cemetery, Harry was later exhumed to be buried at Hooge Crater Cemetery
L/Cpl. Henry Freeman
British Army 5th Battalion Oxfordshire and Bucks Light Infantry
from:Marsh Baldon, Oxfordshire
(d.24th Aug 1916)
Henry Freeman served with the 5th Battalion Oxford and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry
Gunner Matthew Freeman
British Army 32nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery
from:Jarrow
(d.23rd Jul 1916)
Matthew Freeman, was born and lived in Jarrow, he enlisted at North Shields and served with 32nd Siege Battery Royal Garrison Artillery, which was attached to 45th Brigade and landed in France during October 1915. It consisted of 6 x 6 inch Howitzers. Mathew was killed in action aged 27 on the 23rd July 1916. He is buried in Peronne Road Cemetery Maricourt and is remembered on the Triptych in St. Pal's Church Jarrow.
Bugler. Neils Freeman
British Army 2nd Btn. Durham Light Infantry
from:Jarrow
(d.9th Jun 1916)
Neils Freeman was born in Jarrow, the son of James and Phoebe Freeman of Jarrow and husband of Sarah Freeman (nee Ferguson) of 21 Nixon Street Jarrow. On the 1911 census, Neils Freeman age 29 Labourer at Slagworks is with his wife Sarah and her parents the Fergusons at 7 Scott Street, Jarrow.
Neils enlisted at Jarrow and served with the 2nd Battalion Durham Light Infantry. He died age 35 on 9th June 1916. He is buried in Lijssenthoek Military Cemeteryand is remembered on the Triptych in St. Paul's Church Jarrow.
Sergeant Thomas Shelton Freeman
British Army RMR/B/1045 Royal Marine Light Infantry
from:Denbigh
(d.4th March 1915)
2nd Lt. Tom Freeman
British Army 6th Btn. Northamptonshire Regiment
from:Wooton St Bedworth, Warwickshire
(d.17th Feb 1917)
Tom Freeman served with the 6th Northamptonshire Regiment. Little else is known I'm afraid.
Gnr. Victor Frederick Freeman
British Army 123rd Bty. 28th Brigade Royal Field Artillery
(d.15th Apr 1917)
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