Freeman Barnardo

{{short description|English cricketer}} {{Use dmy dates|date=August 2021}} {{Use British English|date=June 2017}} '''Freeman Frederick Thomas Barnardo''' (16 May 1918 – 25 October 1942) was an English first-class cricketer who was born in Bombay, British India, and educated at Eton and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He played in one first-class match for Middlesex and also one first-class match for Cambridge as a right-handed batsman in 1939. In his three innings, he had one score of 75 and two of nought.

He died on active service with the Queen's Bays 2nd Dragoon Guards<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|title=Casualty Details {{!}} CWGC|url=https://www.cwgc.org/find-records/find-war-dead/casualty-details/2092170/FREEMAN%20FREDERICK%20THOMAS%20BARNARDO/|access-date=2021-06-21|website=cwgc.org|language=en}}</ref> during the Second World War, ten miles west of El Alamein in Egypt, aged 24.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cwgc.org/find-war-dead/casualty/2092170/BARNARDO,%20FREEMAN%20FREDERICK%20THOMAS |title=Barnardo, Freeman Frederick Thomas |publisher=Commonwealth War Graves Commission}}</ref> At the time of his death he held the rank of Lieutenant and rests in the care of the Commonwealth War Graves Commission at the El Alamein War Cemetery.<ref name=":0" />

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