FAMOUS SOLDIER
MAJOR-GENERAL FREYBERG APPOINTED TO COMMAND N.Z. FORCES. A DISTINGUISHED CAREER. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON. This Day. The appointment of Major-General B. C. Freyberg, V.C.. C. 8., C.M.G.. D. 5.0., LL.D., to the command of the New Zealand forces overseas has been approved by his Majesty the King. Major-General Freyberg was born in London in 1889 and went to New Zealand in 1891. He was educated at Wellington College and first joined the 6th Hauraki Regiment at Auckland. He did not serve with the New Zealand troops during the Great War, but served with the infantry from the beginning to the Armistice. He served first at Antwerp, then at Gallipoli and then in France, as a company-and battalion commander of the Hood Battalion of the Royal Naval Division. In April. 1917, he was promoted to Briga-dier-General, in command of the 173rd Infantry Brigade. After being wounded at Passchendaele, he commanded the 88th Infantry Brigade, 29th Division, till the end of the war. He was recommended by Earl Haig in 1918 as fit to command and train a division in war. He was wounded nine times and mentioned in despatches five times. He was awarded the D.S.O. at the landing at Gallipoli for swimming ashore at Bulair. He was awarded the V.C. during the Battle of the Ancre in November, 1916. and a bar to the D.S.O. at the last battle of Ypres in 1918. a second bar to the D.S.O. during the last 10 minutes of the war for capturing a crossing over the Dendre at Lessines, Belgium.
He passed at the Staff College in 1919 and served as a company commander of the Grenadier Guards and also as General Staff Officer of the Eastern Command from 1922 to 1926. and in 1928 a,nd 1929. He commanded the First Battalion of the Manchester Regiment from 1929 to 1931. was Assistant Quar-termaster-General of the Southern Command from 1931 to 1933 and General Staff Officer Hirst grade) from 1933 to 1934. He was promoted MajorGeneral in 1934.
On the outbreak of war in September, 1939 he was appointed Genera] Officer Commanding in the Salisbury Plain Area.
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 23 November 1939, Page 5
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