Freeman Barnardo

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[1] during the Second World War, ten miles west of El Alamein in Egypt, aged 24.[2] 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.[1]