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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
VC Held By
Privately held
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