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VC768   Bernard Cyril Freyburg

Name   Bernard Cyril Freyburg   No.      

VC Issue No.   768   Awards   VC   GCMG   KCB   KBE   DSO & 3 Bars

Regiment   Queen's Royal West Surrey Regiment commanding Hood Battalion, Royal Naval Division

Later   

Now   Princess of Wales Royal Regiment

Rank VC Won   Temporary Lieutenant Colonel

Rank End Of Career   Lieutenant General

Place Of Birth   8 Dynevor Road, Richmond, Surrey, England

Place Of Death   King Edward VII Hospital, Windsor, Berkshire, England

Buried/Location Ashes   Church of St Martha on-the-hill Churchyard, St Martha's Hill, Chilworth, near Guildford, Surrey, England

Cremated   

Date Buried/Cremated   10 July 1963

Headstone   Headstone   Plot/Grave no.   

Gazetted   15 December 1916

VC Presented   2 January 1918 by King George V at Buckingham Palace, London, England

Memorials

P  Headstone, Church of St Martha on-the-hill Churchyard, St Martha's Hill, Chilworth, near Guildford, Surrey, England

P  Memorial, In the Crypt, St Paul's Cathedral, London  %   Memorial Plaque, St Marthas Church, Chilworth, Surrey

Memorial Plaque, St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle, Windsor, Berkshire

Bust in The Guildhall, London

Freyburg Street, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Freyburg High School, Palmerston North, New Zealand

Statue, Freyburg Place, Auckland, New Zealand

Victoria Cross Memorial, Queens Gardens, Dunedin, New Zealand

Freyburg Street, Lyall Bay, Wellington, New Zealand

Freyburg Street, Kaipara, New Zealand

Freyburg Road, Trentham, Upper Hutt, New Zealand

Freyburg Street, New Lambton, NSW, Australia


By The Way…

He was Governor-General of New Zealand 1946 – 1952 and also

Lieutenant-Governor of Windsor Castle 1952 until his death in 1963


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The First World War


BORN   21 March 1889

DIED   4 July 1963   AGE   74

VC Won   13 November 1916   AGE   27

Place VC Won   Beaucourt, Somme, France

War/Campaign   First World War 1916

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