Lieutenant-Colonel J.E.B. Freeman
4th Battalion, Lincolnshire Regiment

His cool and cheerful bearing as he moved from platoon to platoon, often under heavy fire, had a most heartening effect while the information he was able to obtain was of the greatest use to his CO in the conduct of the operation. Again during the very bitter fighting … Lt Col. Freeman showed courage of a very high order in moving forward in a confused situation to a company temporarily cut off by enemy infiltration.

(Chevalier of the Order of the Crown, citation, 10 Oct 1945)

Born on 14 May 1913 in Hertfordshire, John Edward Broke Freeman was a lawyer and Territorial Army officer, commissioned with the Oxford and Buckingham Light Infantry in 1935. He was promoted to temporary captain in January 1940 and made acting major six months later. He participated in the planning for the Normandy invasion as brigade major for 146th Infantry Brigade.

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