New Zealand Tunnellers

Unit

4th Reinforcements

Rank

Sapper

Serial

37564

About

Born in New Zealand

3 September 1873

Parents

Mother

Marryan Freeman

Father

John William Freeman

Residence

Hometown

Wanganui

Work

Occupation

Tunneller

Employer

Wanganui Borough Council

Personal Life

Marital Status

Married

Wife

Zilih Ann Freeman

Army Experience

World War I (1914-1918)

New Zealand Tunnellers

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British War Medal

Victory Medal

Death

Died at the age of 47

14 July 1921

Sources

Auckland War Memorial Museum Tāmaki Paenga Hira: Online Cenotaph He Toa Taumata Rau.

New Zealand Archives Te Rua Mahara o te Kāwanatanga, AABK 18805 W5537 120/0042408, Military Personnel File.

Nominal Rolls of New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Vol.III, Roll No.55, Government Printer, Wellington, 1914-1919, p. 39.

Photograph

Philip Jeffery Beattie and Matt Pomeroy, Onward: Portraits of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force, Auckland, Fair Dinkum Publications, 2013-2020.

How to cite this page

Anthony Byledbal, “John James Freeman (1873-1921)“, New Zealand Tunnellers Website, NaN (2009), Accessed: . URL: www.nztunnellers.com/tunnellers/292