Source: Saskatchewan Virtual War Memorial
Family Search: When Private Clarence Ormond Freeman was born on 5 May 1889, in Grenfell Beach, Shesheep 74A, Saskatchewan, Canada, his father, Manfred Freeman, was 24 and his mother, Esther Sherlock, was 27. He married Dorothy Emily Farley in May 1912, in Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada. He immigrated to Vermont, United States in 1916 and lived in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States in 1917 and New York City, New York, United States in 1920. He registered for military service in 1917. In 1917, at the age of 28, his occupation is listed as motor car repairman in Detroit, Wayne, Michigan, United States. He died on 21 August 1918, in Abbeville, Somme, Picardie, France, at the age of 29, and was buried in Abbeville, Somme, Picardie, France.
This 27-year-old motor car repairman decided to enlist with the 241st Overseas Battalion on January 25, 1917, at Windsor, Ontario. He had been working and residing in Detroit but something compelled him to join the army.
He embarked for England from Halifax on April 28, 1917, and arrived at Liverpool on May 7, 1917. He then was transported to West Sandling Camp for further training. On that day he was taken on strength with the 5th Reserve Battalion, serving there until he was transferred to the CASCRD (reserve depot). He was then transferred to the CASCDD (duty depot) on September 30, 1917.
He was then transferred to CASC at Bramshott from Shorncliffe and served there until transferred to the 4th Reserve Battalion on October 10, 1917. Less than a month later hew was transferred to the 18th Battalion and arrived in the field on November 20, 1917, after passing through the 2nd Canadian Infantry Base Depot and the Canadian Corps Reinforcement Camp.
He served with the Battalion until his wounding on August 8, 1918. He suffered a GSW to the head and would die later of those wounds on August 21, 1918 at No. 3 Australian General Hospital.
History of the 18th Battalion CEF, "The Fighting Eighteenth" 