Ernest Leonard (Len) FREEMAN

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FREEMAN, Ernest Leonard

Service Number:	SX10466
Enlisted:	30 November 1940, Adelaide, SA
Last Rank:	Private
Last Unit:	2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
Born:	Calca, South Australia, Australia, 26 April 1908
Home Town:	Calca, Streaky Bay, South Australia
Schooling:	Calca Public School
Occupation:	Labourer
Died:	Killed in Action, Egypt, 1 November 1942, aged 34 years
Cemetery:	El Alamein War Cemetery, Marsa Matruh XXII E 19
Memorials:	Adelaide WW2 Wall of Remembrance, Australian War Memorial Roll of Honour, Calca WW2 Honour Roll, Streaky Bay and District Roll of Honour WW2

World War 2 Service

30 Nov 1940:	Involvement Private, SX10466, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
30 Nov 1940:	Enlisted Adelaide, SA
30 Nov 1940:	Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Private, SX10466, 2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion, Adelaide, SA
Date unknown:	Involvement

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Biography contributed by Faithe Jones

Son of Arthur Ernest and Charlotte Comer Freeman, of Calca, South Australia.

HIS DUTY NOBLY DONE

A tragedy already felt in many West Coast homes attended a popular Calca family last Saturday when word was received that Dvr. E. L. (Len.) Freeman was killed in action on Sunday, November 1. Len. is the third son of Mrs. and the late Mr. A. E. Freeman. He received a social from the district on March 12, 1941, and the following month departed for overseas—the Middle East. Throughout the desert campaigns, his "cobber" was Dvr. Holey Johnson, of Streaky Bay. Aged 33 years at the time of his death, Len attended Calca School and then worked with his family on their farm. Three brothers and three sisters mourn their loss along with their mother. One of the brothers, Bob, was to have been tendered a social on Saturday night while home on leave, but, of course, this was cancelled. Although victory cannot be atttained without some loss, a death, how ever nobly sustained, deals a crushing blow to loved ones at home. In realization of this, West Coast people extend honour to the dead and sincere sympathy to the bereaved.

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