Jack Freeman

An Able Seaman with H.M.S. Barham, Jack died on 25th of November 1941 aged 20. 

Jack was born at Lowestoft on 22 December 1920, a son of George William and Charlotte Edith Freeman. In 1921 his family lived at 57 Edinburgh Road, and this was still their home in 1939 when Jack was a labourer at a silk works. 

By November 1941 Jack was serving with the battleship H.M.S. Barham in the Mediterranean. On 25 November 1941 the Barham was hit by three torpedoes fired by the German submarine U-331. The ship sank very quickly and 862 of the crew, including Jack, were killed.