WW1
FREER, JOHN ROBERT
Studio portrait of 4649 Private (Pte) John Robert Freer, 12th Battalion. A labourer from Sassafras, Tas prior to enlistment, Pte Freer embarked with the 14th Reinforcements from Melbourne aboard HMAT Warilda on 8 February 1916. On 9 June 1917, aged 20 and following his transfer to the 52nd Battalion, he died of wounds received in action and was buried at the Westhof Farm Cemetery, Belgium
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