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Photograph of Herbert Freestone

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Title
Photograph of Herbert Freestone
Subject
Freestone, Herbert Edward
Notes
Herbert Edward Freestone, centre, was born 29th February 1880 at Hadfield, Derbyshire. He was a private soldier in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers.

Herbert Freestone was invalided out before the end of the war and lived until 1956.

Editor's Comment:
Privates of the Royal Welsh Fusiliers, equipped with the Pattern 1914 Infantry Equipment, and armed with Charger Loading Lee Enfield rifles, with fixed Bayonets.
Item date
1915
Creation place
England
Item source
Photograph
Item medium
Photographic paper
Content
Photograph
Cataloguer
Richard Marshall
Filename
GWA_5434_Herbert_centre.jpg
Copyright
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor
Digital repository
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford
Contributor name
Bernice Dorothy Ferguson

Citation

“Photograph of Herbert Freestone,” The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor via First World War Poetry Digital Archive, accessed April 25, 2024, http://ww1lit.nsms.ox.ac.uk/ww1lit/gwa/item/6378.

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