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Rifleman J.C. Freeman, 15th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles (North Belfast Volunteers), was killed by a high explosive shell on the 23rd ult. He was the third son of Mr. Samuel Freeman, 27, Trafalgar Street, and was a member of Rosemary Street Presbyterian Church Sunday School, Commodore Watson's Loyal Blues L.O.L. 149, and the North Belfast Regiment, Ulster Volunteer Force. He was 22 years of age, and was formerly employed at the Queen's Island. Rev. James Quinn, Chaplain to the Forces writes :—" We buried him beside Bugler Baird and Rifleman McCullagh, of the same battalion. in a little cemetery for British soldiers. The guns were booming, and the shells fell close by during the time we said the burial service." Rifleman John Calder Freeman, 16495, C' Company 15th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles, (North Belfast Volunteers), killed in action 24th December, 1915. Son of Samuel and Elizabeth Freeman nee Calder, of 27 Trafalgar Street, Belfast. Deceased was 22 years of age and is interred in Sucrerie Military Cemetery, Collincamps, France.