In the last few weeks of World War I, he was conscripted and served as a private in the Queen's Royal Regiment (West Surrey).
With his ex-serviceman's grant he entered St Bartholomew's Hospital Medical School in 1919 as a student at the University of London.
[3] He joined George Gask's professorial unit[4] as a third assistant in a team consisting of Thomas Peel Dunhill, Geoffrey Keynes, and James Paterson Ross.
[2] When wounded soldiers began to arrive, Freeman founded an orthopaedic unit at Wordsley Hospital in Dudley.
The foot deformities involved in two paediatric cases of the syndrome were brought to Freeman's attention for possible surgical correction.