(11)ĭarryl Kelly records that Harry Freame was in Mexico twice, returning in 1910. He ruled from 1876 to 1880 and then again from 1884 to 1911. José de la Cruz Porfirio Díaz Mori (15 September 1830 – 2 July 1915) was a Mexican-American War volunteer, a French Intervention hero who fought against the French imposed Mexican Emporer Maximilian, and President of Mexico. The second campaign on the other side of the world is the Mexican Wars where he is reported as working as an intelligence officer for President Porfirio Diaz. This would also be consistent with the date of his marriage. (9) So I think it likely that Harry Freame served as a scout in South West Africa between 19. There was a rebellion in German East Africa (now Burundi, Rwanda and Tanganyika, the mainland part of present Tanzania), but this started in the middle of 1905.(8) By contrast, in German South West Africa (now Namibia), a serious and very bloody Hottentot rising did begin in 1904, continuing until it was crushed with considerable brutality in 1907. James Courtney suggests that he was involved in the supression of the Hottentot rising 1904 to 1906 (6), while Darryl Kelly records that Freame told friends that he served in 1904 as part of an international band of mercenaries hired to help suppress a native revolt.(7) The first is given by both as German East Africa. We also know that he had already started as an adventurer and mercenary.īoth Darryl Kelly and James Courtney refer to two campaigns. (5) At that stage his age was somewhere between 21 (1885 birth) and 26 (1880 birth). We know that on 19 July 2006 he married Edith May Soppitt at St John's Anglican Church, Middleborough in England, occupation merchant seaman. This early part of Harry Freame's life is shrouded in mystery. Darryl Kelly records that he was sent to England at the age of 15 (1895, 1900) to further his education. Harry Freame almost certainly initially grew up in Japan, speaking Japanese like a native born.
Could he in fact fitted have them all in? My feeling is the earlier date may well be correct. James Courtney suggests 28 February 1885 with a question mark(2), Darryl Kelly 1880.(3) This difference is not insignificant because it bears upon the accuracy of some of the stories about Harry Freame's early life.
Wykeham Henry Koba Freame was in fact born at Osaka, Japan, son of Henry Freame, sometime teacher of English at the Kai- sei Gakko in Japan, and a Japanese woman, Shizu, née Kitagawa. With his dark complexion and accent, many thought him to be of Eskimo extraction, some thought American Indian, others maybe Mexican, an image he played up to "at Anzac where, in cowboy fashion, he carried two revolvers in holsters on his belt, another in a holster under his armpit and a bowie knife in his boot pocket."(1)
When Harry Freame enlisted in the AIF on 28 August 1914 he described himself as a horse-breaker of Glen Innes and gave his birth place as Kitscoty, Alberta, Canada. Like any self respecting adventurer, elements of Harry Freame's life are shrouded in mystery, a mystery I suspect he sometimes played to with considerable effect. Looking again at the photograph reminded me that I had not yet told the remarkable story of Harry Freame. Kentucky was an orcharding and soldier settlement community south of Uralla, about twenty four miles from Armidale. This included a photo of 1937 boarders, one of whom was Harry Freame from Kentucky.
Photo: Sergeant Harry Freame, peering out from a sniper’s hole, Gallipoli.Ī little while ago I ran a post, Did you board at St John's Hostel Armidale?.
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