Sir Edmund Francis HERRING KCMG, KBE, DSO, MC, ED

HERRING, Edmund Francis

    Service Number: VX15
    Enlisted: 11 October 1939
    Last Rank: Lieutenant General
    Last Unit: Not yet discovered
    Born: Maryborough, Victoria, Australia, 2 September 1892
    Home Town: Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria
    Schooling: Maryborough High School (Vic) & Melbourne (Church of England) Grammar School, Victoria, Australia
    Occupation: Army officer, barrister, Chief Justice
    Died: Camberwell, Victoria, Australia, 5 January 1982, aged 89 years, cause of death not yet discovered
    Cemetery: Not yet discovered
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    World War 2 Service

    11 Oct 1939: Enlisted Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant General, VX15
    10 Feb 1944: Discharged Australian Military Forces (WW2) , Lieutenant General, VX15
    Date unknown: Involvement VX15

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    Biography contributed by Peter Nemaric

    In 1912 he was selected as Victoria's Rhodes scholar and attended New College Oxford where he enlisted 1st King Edwards Horse (University Squadron).

    Attached 1st Troop C Squadron.

    Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant RFA December 1914.

    France August 1915 attached 99th Field Artillery Brigade, British 22nd Division.

    Macedonia Sept 1915

    Captain.

    Oct 1917 to Mar 1918 Commanding Officer B Battery, 99th Field Artillery Brigade.

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