Family Card - Person Sheet
Family Card - Person Sheet
NameMajor General Harold Augustus FREEMAN-ATTWOOD DSO, OBE, MC , 6C2R
Birth30 Dec 1897, Llanarth, Monmouthshire, Wales
Death22 Sep 1963
Burial25 Sep 1963
FatherMajor Edward FREEMAN (1875-1916)
Spouses
Birth10 Nov 1899
Death23 Nov 1958
Marriage10 Sep 1921
Divorce1945
ChildrenHarold Warren (1923-2015)
 Alice Avalon (1932-1982)
Notes for Major General Harold Augustus FREEMAN-ATTWOOD DSO, OBE, MC 
In the 1901 census Bryn Celyn, Llanfihangel Bachellaeth, Caernarvonshire, Wales
Head Edward Freeman, age 25, Captain Royal Welsh Fusiliers, employer, born Isleworth, Middlesex
Wife Katherine M. Freeman, age 28, living on own means, born Hythe, Kent
Son Harold A. Freeman, age 3, born Llanarth, Monmouth
Son Edward R. Freeman, age 1, born Llanfihangel
Son Arthur R. Freeman, age 3 months, born Llanfihangel
a housemaid, a cook and a nurse

World War I British Army Medal Rolls Index Card
Harold Augustus Freeman, M.C. [Military Cross], 1st Battalion Royal Welsh Fusiliers, Lieutenant ( Acting Captain and Adjutant)
Victory Medal
British Medal
Theatre of war first served in: France
Date of entry therein: May 5, 1916

Newfoundland, Canada Marriages
Marriage September 10, 1921
Harold A. Freeman, age 23, bachelor, Officer British Regular Army, Church of England, residence St. John and
Jessie Job, age 21, spinster, residence St. John,
Ceremony by A. Clayton
witnesses W. Angus Reid and Gladys H? Reid

UK Outward Passenger Lists
Departed England January 12 1929 on the Assyria, destination Bombay, India. 1st class
Harold A. Freeman, last UK address Bank Hart, Orpington, Captain Army, age 31
Jessie Freeman, age 29
Harold Freeman, age 5

UK Outward Passenger Lists
Departed England March 11 1949 on the Canton destination Bombay, India
Harold Augustus Freeman-Attwood, 1st class, age 51, last address in UK 2 Grosvenor Place [London] SW1, staff manager, last country of permanent residence England, country of future intended residence India

Parish Records - St. Peter Ruddington, Nottinghamshire
Harold Augustus Freeman-Attwood, abode Fairham House, Clifton Lane, Ruddington, buried September 25 1963, age 65, D. 65 (second interment)

National Probate Calendar
Harold Augustus Freeman-Attwood D.S.O. O.B.E. M.C. of Fairham House Ruddington Nottinghamshire died 22 September 1963 Administration (with Will) London 16 January 1964 to Harold Warren Freeman-Attwood [son] major Her Magesty’s army. 3068 pounds

From Wikipedia
Major General Harold Freeman-Attwood
Born 30 December 1897 Died 22 September 1963 (aged 65)
Allegiance United KingdomService/branch British Army Years of service1915–1943
Rank Major General
Unit Royal Welch
Commands held
46th Infantry Division (1941–43)
141st (London) Infantry Brigade (1940–41)
5th London Brigade (1940)
Battles/wars
First World War
North-West Frontier
Second World War
AwardsDistinguished Service Order
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
Military Cross
Major General Harold Augustus Freeman-Attwood, DSO, OBE, MC (30 December 1897 – 22 September 1963) was a British Army officer who fought in both World Wars.
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Early life and military career
Born Harold Freeman on 30 December 1897, he was the eldest son of Edward Freeman, a British Army officer, and Katherine Margaret. Freeman was educated at Summer Fields School, Marlborough College and, during the First World War, attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he graduated on 13 July 1915 and was subsequently commissioned as a second lieutenant into his father's regiment, the Royal Welch Fusiliers. He served with the 1st Battalion, Royal Welch Fusiliers, part of the 22nd Brigade of the 7th Division, a Regular Army unit, on the Western Front, where he was awarded the Military Cross during the Battle of Passchendaele in August 1917, and, with his battalion, was sent to the Italian Front later in the year, where it remained until the end of the war.
Between the wars
Remaining in the army between the wars, Freeman married Jessie Job on 10 September 1921 and together they had three children; Harold Warren Freeman, born in 1923; Edward Augustus Carson, born in 1930; and Alice Avalon, born in 1932. He served with his regiment throughout the interwar period, mainly with the 1st Battalion, in operations in Waziristan in the early 1920s before returning to the United Kingdom where he became adjutant to a Territorial Army (TA) battalion of his regiment from 1924 to 1928. He attended the Staff College, Camberley from 1928 to 1929 and later served in Cyprus, where he was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire for suppressing a Greek Cypriot rebellion in 1931–1932. He returned again to the United Kingdom where he served at the staff of the War Office from 1932 to 1934.
Second World War
At the outbreak of the Second World War in September 1939, Freeman-Attwood (having added Attwood to his name in 1937) by now a lieutenant colonel, was serving as a General Staff Officer (GSO) with the 50th (Northumbrian) Motor Division, a TA formation.[ He was sent with the division to France in January 1940 where it became part of the British Expeditionary Force (BEF). He served with the division throughout the Battle of France in May 1940 and took part in the Dunkirk evacuation, and, in late July, was promoted to brigadier and assumed command of the 5th London Brigade, another TA unit, part of the 2nd London Division (both redesignated in November 1940 as the 141st (London) Infantry Brigade and 47th (London) Infantry Division). In November 1941 he was promoted to major general and became General Officer Commanding (GOC) of the 46th Infantry Division, another TA unit, in succession to Major General Miles Dempsey.
The division, recruiting from the North Midlands and the West Riding of Yorkshire, was composed of the 137th, 138th and 139th Infantry Brigades, along with supporting divisional troops. The division was, in June 1942, reorganised into a 'mixed' division, comprising two infantry brigades and one armoured brigade. However, a month afterwards, the division was converted back into a standard infantry division and, in place of the 137th Infantry Brigade (which had been converted into the 137th Armoured Brigade), in August, the division gained the 128th Infantry Brigade, retaining this composition for the rest of the war. In January 1943 Freeman-Attwood led the division overseas to French North Africa, where, upon its arrival in Tunisia, came under command of Lieutenant General Charles Allfrey's V Corps, itself part of Lieutenant General Kenneth Anderson's British First Army. The division fought in the Tunisian Campaign, most notably in the final stages of the Battle of Kasserine Pass and in Operation Ochsenkopf, until the campaign came to an end in May 1943, with Freeman-Attwood being awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) for his division's actions at Djebel Abiod.
Retirement and later years
In August, as the division was preparing to take part in the Allied invasion of Italy, Freeman-Attwood was relieved of his command and retired from the army in October, after being court-martialled for writing home in a letter to his wife expressing a wish to be drinking champagne in Italy on their wedding anniversary and disclosing details of future military operations. Returning to civilian life, he joined the Imperial Chemical Industries and, by 1949, was Staff Manager.
Freeman-Attwood divorced in 1945, and remarried to Marion Louise the following year, he retired to Nottinghamshire where he was involved in politics and active for the Conservative Party
Notes for Jessie (Spouse 1)
1939 England and Wales Register
Arlaw Banks, Winston, Darlington, Barnard Castle Road, Durham
1. Jessie Freeman-Attwood, born November 10 1899, married, independant means
2. a cook
3. a palourmaid
4. Record officially closed

UK Outward Passenger Lists
Departed England November 19 1949 on the “Newfoundland”, destination St. John’s, Newfoundland
Jessie Freeman Attwood, tourist class, age 50, last address in Uk c/o Job Bros. Liverpool, housewife

National Probate Calendar
Jessie Freeman-Attwood of 136 Latymer Court Hammersmith London W.6 single woman died 23 November 1958 Probate London 6 March 1959 to Harold Warren Freeman-Attwood [son] major H.M. army and Martin Noel William Burch company director. Effects 19 363 pounds
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