Orders, Decorations, Medals and Militaria

Three: Major E. R. Freeman, Royal Welsh Fusiliers

India General Service 1908-35, 1 clasp, Waziristan 1921-24 (2. Lieut. E. R. Freeman. R.W. Fus.); Defence and War Medals 1939-45, mounted as worn; together with the related miniature awards, very fine (3) £200-£240

Edward Rollo Freeman was born in Pwllheli, Carnarvon, in 1899 and attested for the Inns of Court Officers Training Corps at Hounslow on 28 January 1918. He was commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Royal Welsh Fusiliers on 7 March 1919, and served with them during the Waziristan Campaign from 18 December 1922 to 23 April 1923. He was promoted Lieutenant on 17 April 1925; Captain in March 1929; and Major in October 1932. He saw further service during the Second World War, both in India and at home. He died in Hereford on 2 May 1969.

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