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Harold Stanley FREEMAN

Regimental number1380
Date of birth15 September 1890
Place of birthAdelaide, South Australia
Other NamesHarda Stanley
SchoolArdrossan Public School, South Australia
ReligionMethodist
OccupationDraper
AddressPark Terrace, Unley, South Australia
Marital statusSingle
Age at embarkation24
Next of kinFather, George J.W. Freeman, Park Terrace, Unley, South Australia
Enlistment date21 July 1915
Rank on enlistmentPrivate
Unit name9th Light Horse Regiment, 11th Reinforcement
AWM Embarkation Roll number10/14/3
Embarkation detailsUnit embarked from Adelaide, South Australia, on board HMAT A24 Benalla on 27 October 1915
Rank from Nominal RollPrivate
Unit from Nominal Roll9th Light Horse Regiment
FateDied of disease 29 January 1916
Place of death or woundingEgypt
Age at death26
Age at death from cemetery records26
Place of burialCairo War Memorial Cemetery (Row D, Grave No. 288), Egypt
Panel number, Roll of Honour,
  Australian War Memorial
7
Miscellaneous information from
  cemetery records
Parents: George James William and Fanny Bowden FREEMAN, 47 Park Terrace, unley, South Australia
Other details

War service: Egypt.

Injured the base of his skull and contracted meningitis; invalided to 1st Australian General General Hospital, Heliopolis, where he died, 29 January 1916, and was buried at Dieux, Cairo, Grave No. 288, Section 11, Chaplain E. Makeham officiating.

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