S/7194 Pte Samuel Freel, 14th Bn, Royal Highlanders

S/7194 Private Samuel Freel of the 14th (Fife and Forfar Yeomanry) Battalion, Royal Highlanders, died of wounds on the 2nd January 1918. He was the son of Michael and Elizabeth Freel, and the husband of Isabella Muir Freel, of 108 Watsonville, Motherwell.

Samuel was born in Maryhill, Glasgow, and his number indicates that he joined the Royal Highlanders in December 1914. He arrived overseas in France on the 10th May 1915 but succumbed to his injuries whilst serving in the Middle East. He is one of 3,300 Commonwealth burials from the First World War interred in the Ramleh War Cemetery.

At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

Sources:

Ancestry.co.uk (MIC)
Army Ancestry
Army Service Numbers 1881-1918
Commonwealth War Graves Commission
Soldiers Died in The Great War