Identity
Person No.
7626
Service No.
73709
Last Name
First Name
Hubert Dainton
Initials
H D
Date of Birth
Unknown
Est. Birth Year
Age at Death
28
Military Service
Death Record
Date of Death
Cause of Death
Died in air crash, span into the ground and crashed at Worcestershire's Honeybourne airfield
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Location
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Additional Information
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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.
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External Source
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South African War Graves Project