Ships
- HMS Caledon (D53) Acting Lieutenant-Commander from 6 April 1945 · Relieved on 29 April 1945
James Robert Freeman, Royal Naval Reserve, had Caledon from 6 April 1945 until 29 April 1945, as an acting lieutenant-commander. Uboat.net says she paid off into reserve at Falmouth on the day he left.
Uboat.net records that he was born on 16 April 1908 at South Shields and died on 21 June 1987 at Dewsbury.
The rank table lists lieutenant on 14 November 1937, acting lieutenant-commander about April 1945, and lieutenant-commander on 14 November 1945. He retired on 1 July 1950. The Royal Naval Reserve decoration is dated 1 March 1946. The page says it has no career narrative. The catalog navy value is rn, the value used for a British officer. The page itself says Royal Naval Reserve. The English rank in the command line is Acting Lieutenant-Commander, which is the rank uboat.net prints for this command.
He relieved Eric Hart Dyke on 6 April 1945. Mason has her laid up at Falmouth in April 1945, after a paying-off in March that the chronology does not date to a day. Uboat.net dates the paying-off 29 April 1945 at Falmouth and says she was disarmed at Chatham that month. His command ends on the uboat.net paying-off day. The pages do not list another command.
He was promoted lieutenant-commander on 14 November 1945, received the RNR decoration on 1 March 1946, and retired on 1 July 1950. He died at Dewsbury on 21 June 1987.