Gordon Redvers Harold Freeman

A Rifleman with the Depot, Gordon died on 31st of October 1918 aged 19. 

Gordon was born at Lowestoft in 1899, a son of George and Elizabeth Freeman. He was baptised at Saint Margaret’s Church on 19 November 1899 and his family lived at 53 Saint Margaret’s Road and this was still their home in 1901. By 1911 they were living at 54 Saint Peter’s Street and later Gordon’s parents lived at Sunshine Villa, Mariners Score.

Gordon enlisted in the Army at Bury St. Edmunds. He joined the King’s Royal Rifle Corps and was posted to the 16th Battalion in France. There is no record of when, where, or how, Gordon was wounded, but he was evacuated to England, posted to the strength of the Depot and admitted to 3rd Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, where he died from wounds and pneumonia.