Gift Portrait of General Freyberg
With this issue is included a gift portrait of Major-General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, V.C., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., LL.D., Commander-in-Chiet of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force, and now Commander-in-Chief of the Allied Forces in Crete. He is New Zealand’s greatest soldier and most distinguished hero of the’ Great War, 1914-18. He was born in London in 1890, but lived in Wellington as a boy, and was educated at Wellington College, and practised as a dentist in New Zealand before joining the British Army, where his name became almost a legend — Dardanelles ‘with the Hood Battalion, R.N.R., Brigadier 1917 (aged 27), with the 29th Division, mentioned in despatches six times, wounded nine times, D.S.O. and two bars, and V.C. December, 1916, for courageous action neat Beaumont, France. Before the Gallipoli landing, he swam two miles to the shore and lighted flares to decoy the Turkish forces at Bulair and enable a British landing to be made at the other end of the peninsula. Twice in later years, he tried to swim the English Channel. After the war, he commanded a regiment in the British Army, was Assistant Quartermaster General of the Southern Command, and General Staff Officer, 1st Grade, War Office. He is married, and has a son serving as a private in the New Zealand Expeditionary Forces
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 100, 23 May 1941, Page 3
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222Gift Portrait of General Freyberg New Zealand Listener, Volume 4, Issue 100, 23 May 1941, Page 3
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