Freyne, so in Mindanao on 19 October that year he purchased his way out of his American enlistment, a common and standard practice from 1890 to 1940. French rejoined the British Army at the outbreak of the First World War and died on 9 May 1915, aged thirty-five, probably at about 16:00 hours, in the Battle of Aubers Ridge, fighting alongside his half-brother, the Hon. George Philip French, as a captain in the 3rd Battalion, South Wales Borderers. He is buried in the Cabaret-Rouge British Cemetery, Souchez, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was succeeded as Baron de Freyne by another half-brother, Francis Charles French. His widow died in 1962. Arms References CWGC casualty entry 1879 births 1915 deaths Barons in the Peerage of the United Kingdom Royal Fusiliers officers Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst English emigrants to the United States British military personnel killed in World War I South Wales Borderers officers British Army personnel of World War I United States Army soldiers Eldest sons of British hereditary barons