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Military service
Service number:
14421136
Age:
19
Rank:
Lance Corporal
Force:
Army
Unit/Regiment:
Royal Engineers
Birth:
February 28, 1925
Montréal, Québec
Death:
December 22, 1944
Burial/memorial information
Grave reference:
Sec. T.T. C. of E. Grave 431.
Additional information
Son of Wilson McD. Freestone and Winifred Freestone; husband of Madge Freestone, of Holme Slack, Preston.
Digital gallery of Lance Corporal James Wilson Freestone
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Family Photo
The people in the photo are as follows: Back row L-R James Wilson Freestone , ( my uncle) Michael Cullimore John, (my brother) aged approx 6-9 months Ernest Cullimore John , my father Front row L-R Hilda Isabella Freestone , my aunt (James’ sister ) She is on the Roll of Honour at Bletchley Park (Y Service) Wilson Macdonald Freestone, Hilda and James father, my grandfather Winifred Moira Bailey John, my mother, sister of Hilda and James I would estimate the date to be around mid/late 1943 My mum and dad met and married in India ( he was in the Welch Regiment) and in one of her many letters - they left India on 1. March 1943. My brother was born in Wellington, India in September 1942 and that would fit with his size and appearance here..!
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Lance Corporal James Wilson Freestone
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 309 of the Second World War Book of Remembrance.
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PRESTON (NEW HALL LANE) CEMETERY Lancashire, United Kingdom
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