Service Details
Name:
 FREAKES
Given Name:
 HUBERT DAINTON
Initials:
 H D
Service No:
 73709
Trade:
 Pilot
Rank:
 Flying Officer
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Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
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Date of Death:
 1942-03-10
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Date of Birth:
 1914-02-02
Age:
 28
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Hudson III V8995, air crash, span into the ground and crashed at Worcestershire's Honeybourne airfield.
Additional
Information:
Son of Benjamin Freakes and of Blanche Eliza Freakes (nee Dainton), of Durban, Natal, South Africa. M.A. Rhodes Scholar. Educated at Maritzburg College, Pietermaritzburg, Natal, South Africa and at Rhodes University, in Grahamstown, South Africa. Was an English rugby union international. Born and bred in South Africa, he played first-class cricket with Eastern Province before going to England. Freakes attended Oxford University, and made his debut for England on the 15 January 1938, against Wales.
Commemoration
Country:
 United Kingdom
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Locality:
 Worcestershire
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Cemetery:
 EVESHAM CEMETERY
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Grave Reference:
 Grave 1338.

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