Name
John Porter Freeborn
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
01/03/1918
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
33167
Duke of Cambridge’s Own (Middlesex Regiment)
4th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Not Yet Researched
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
LIJSSENTHOEK MILITARY CEMETERY
XXVII. E. 16A.
Belgium
Headstone Inscription
Not Researched
UK & Other Memorials
Not on the Bengeo memorials Not on the Ware memorials
Pre War
Born in 1880 and christened on 29 Feb 1880 in Bengeo, Hertford son of John Porter Freeborn and Eliza (Copsey) Freeborn of Ware.
In 1901 he lived in Hornsey and was working as a bricklayer. He married Margaret Louisa Payne in 1909 in Aylesbury and they lived at 3 Victoria Street, Aylesbury.
Wartime Service
Enlisted at Wood Green and died of pneumonia in Belgium probably in hospital at Lijssenthoek.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox
