Name
Alban Henry Freeman
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
07/03/1917
27
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Gunner
205985
Royal Horse Artillery
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
Searched but not found
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
WHEATHAMPSTEAD (ST. HELEN) CHURCHYARD
United Kingdom
Headstone Inscription
No Report
UK & Other Memorials
Hoddesdon and Rye Park Town Memorial, Hoddesdon, St Catherine and St Paul’s Church Memorial, Hoddesdon, Wheathampstead Village Memorial, We are not aware of any memorial in New Marford
Pre War
Alban (sometimes recorded as Alburn or Auburn) was born in 1889 in Marford, Wheathampstead son of William Freeman, stationary engine driver, and Annie Maria Fensome.
On the 1891 the family living at Marford, Wheathampstead, consisted of parents, Alfred (born 1874), William Dolphin (born 1883), Montague B (born 1885), Alban Henry and Mabel (born 1891). On the 1901 Census still living at Marford, there was in addition Annie H (born 1893). On the 1911 Census although still living at Marford with only his parents Alban was an under gardener.
Wartime Service
No Service Record could be found for Alban, such records as exist state that he enlisted at Hoddesdon, Herts as Gunner 205985 in Royal Horse Artillery. His death is recorded in Woolwich on 7 Mar 1917 at the Royal Herbert Hospital and he was interred in St Helens Churchyard, Wheathampstead on 14 Mar 1917.
Additional Information
His record of Soldiers Effects show arrears of £14 1s 4d but record has been struck through.
Brother Montague served with Royal Engineers as Lance Corporal 262679 with 260 Railway Construction Company and was demobilised in 1919.
Acknowledgments
Neil Cooper
Malcolm Lennox
