Letter sent home by Herbert Freestone

Item

Title

Letter sent home by Herbert Freestone

Identifier

9378.cpd

Subject

Freestone, Herbert Edward

Abstract

Herbert Edward Freestone, 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. The daughter to whom the letter was sent was my mother, Dorothy May Freestone.

Editor's Comment:
On headed notepaper: 'R.W.F.' (Royal Welsh Fusiliers), below dragon.

Date

1914 - 1918

Date Created

1915-01-01

Temporal Coverage

1915-12-31

Source

Leaf

Medium

Paper

Type

Letter

number of pages

2

Contributor

Richard Marshall
Bernice Dorothy Ferguson

Publisher

The Great War Archive, University of Oxford