Born 30 April 1894 at Braila, Rumania, second of the six children and eldest son of Joseph Freeman, coach-builder and inventor, and Sophia Fremovitch, his wife. He was brought to England in infancy, and educated at day schools at Hastings and Croydon, and matriculated at Battersea Polytechnic. He won an entrance scholarship in anatomy and physiology at King's College, Strand, and after acting as assistant demonstrator of anatomy there entered the medical school of Westminster Hospital. Meanwhile he had become a Member of the Pharmaceutical Society and was earning his living as a dispenser. He won numerous prizes in the medical school, and after qualifying in 1921 served as casualty house surgeon. He then settled in general practice at Dalston, but after ten years took the midwifery qualification of the Society of Apothecaries and was able to set up as a West End obstetrician in 1932. His ambition was still set on surgery, and he took the Fellowship in 1941; he combined a clinical assistantship at the Prince of Wales Hospital, Tottenham, with an associate lectureship on surgery at the North East London Postgraduate College connected with the hospital. Freeman had married in 1923 Dr Margaret Mina Brownstone, BSc, MRCS, LRCP 1922. He and his wife took charge of the air-raid casualty centre of No 34 National Fire Service area in Holborn during the heavy German air-raids on London, and were on duty there every night from 1940 to 1945. He also operated on air-raid casualties at the Royal Albert Dock Hospital, to which he was appointed assistant surgeon in 1946. He had served as surgical registrar at the National Temperance Hospital and was elected assistant surgeon there also in 1946. He studied gastroscopy under Hermon Taylor, and became an expert in this branch. Just when he had achieved his ambition of practising surgery, Freeman was struck down by illness. He died on 29 September 1949, aged 55, survived by his wife and their two daughters, who were both married and living abroad. He had lived at 69 Harley House, NW. Publications:- A gastroscopic control of the treatment of gastric ulcer by duodenal feeding. *Brit J Surg* 1944, 32, 303. Acute osteomyelitis of lumbar spine in an adult. *Brit med J* 1946, 2, 610.