In Memory Of

FREAKES, HUBERT DAINTON

Service Details
Age:
 28
Date of Birth:
 1914-02-02
Service No:
 73709
Rank:
 Flying Officer
Regiment:
 Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve
Date of Death:
 1942-03-10
Cause of Death:
 Died in Aircraft Accident, Hudson III V8995, air crash, span into the ground and crashed at Worcestershire's Honeybourne airfield.
Commemoration
Grave Reference:
 Grave 1338.
Cemetery:
 EVESHAM CEMETERY
Localitly:
 Worcestershire
Country:
 United Kingdom
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.