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Auction: 18003 - Orders, Decorations and Medals
Lot: 250

The Great War Memorial Scroll issued in remembrance of Lieutenant Harry Percival Freeman, Canadian Infantry and Royal Air Force, with related Buckingham Palace condolence slip and O.H.M.S. postage box, addressed to 'Edmund Freeman, Esq., 256 Willesden Lane, London, N.W., England', the first two in good condition, the tube worn

Harry Percival Freeman was serving at the Central Flying School when he died on 21 January 1918. Described in the Aberdeen Press and Journal as an 'experienced pilot', both he and Lieutenant C. S. Rooke were killed in a flying accident in Cambridgeshire when, 'at some height the machine nose-dived, and struck the ground with great force.' Freeman is buried at Golders Green Crematorium; sold with copied research, including MIC and Roll of Honour from the Royal Aero Club of the U.K.

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