posted on 2024-02-23, 22:48authored byGreat War Archive Project Team
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.
History
Identifier
6387.jpg|
GWA_5434_Herbert_centre.jpg|
Subject
Freestone, Herbert Edward
Date
1915
Date Created
01/08/1914
Temporal Coverage
31/12/1918
Source
Photograph
Medium
Photographic paper
Type
Photograph
Contributor
Richard Marshall | Bernice Dorothy Ferguson
Rights
The Great War Archive, University of Oxford / Primary Contributor