Annie Freeman

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  • Unit - Women's Auxiliary Army Corps
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  • Date of Birth - 26/05/1897
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Source: Leicestershire War Memorials Project.
Daughter of Herbert Freeman from Nottingham and Eliza Hibbert from Thringstone. She had a child (Diamond Freeman, father unknown) in 1916 - he was in the RAF and died during WW2. Her brother Richard was killed in the war in 1917. She worked as a munitions worker for Stableford's, and enlisted on 4th January 1918, joining the WAAC as an assistant cook and waitress. She was fined on 29th January 1918 for being absent without permission before being posted to France. She went to Rouen in France on 6th February 1918 and was discharged on 10th June 1919 having served with three units, as "her work and personal character have been equally unsatisfactory". Her brother Herbert was killed in the war in 1918. She went back to the UK on 15th May 1919. She married John Jones in 1920 and had three more sons - Henry, Jack (John) and Aubrey. Henry and Jack were born in Whitwick, Aubrey in Wolverhampton. Henry and Jack were both killed in WW2. She had lost her two brothers in WW1 and three of her four sons in WW2. She died on 25th October 1954.
(Taken from https://www.historypin.org/en/person/68808/explore/geo/51.08019,-62.040857,8/bounds/49.609775,-63.710778,52.505313,-60.370935/paging/1/pin/1009775 on 06/09/22)

Leicestershire Project Findings
  • Conflict - World War I
  • Birth Place - Thringstone
  • Special Categories - Survivors, Women