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Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg

1889 - 1963

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Lieutenant-General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, (21 March 1889 – 4 July 1963) was a British-born New Zealand soldier and Victoria Cross recipient, who served as the 7th governor-general of New Zealand from 1946 to 1952 - the first to have been raised and educated in New Zealand. Freyberg served as an officer in the British Army during the First World War. He took part in the beach landings during the Gallipoli campaign and was the youngest general in the British Army during the First World War, later serving on the Western Front, where he was decorated with the Victoria Cross and three Distinguished Service Orders, making him one of the most highly decorated British Empire soldiers of the First World War. He liked to be in the thick of the action: Winston Churchill called him "the Salamander" due to his ability to pass through fire unharmed. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg is the 1,371st most popular military personnel (down from 1,193rd in 2019), the 2,665th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 2,041st in 2019) and the 64th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among military personnels, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg ranks 1,371 out of 2,058. Before him are Oskar Kummetz, Sergei Shtemenko, Henri de Montmorency, 4th Duke of Montmorency, José Enrique Varela, Theodore Van Kirk, and Gaius Sulpicius Gallus. After him are Brice Oligui Nguema, Andrés Avelino Cáceres, Franz Bäke, Ecaterina Teodoroiu, Akashi Motojiro, and Harukichi Hyakutake.

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Among people born in 1889, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg ranks 145. Before him are G. M. B. Dobson, Edith Tolkien, Shigeyoshi Inoue, Lord Leopold Mountbatten, Laureano Gómez, and Maria Dąbrowska. After him are Kanji Ishiwara, Alexander Vertinsky, Muhammad Jamalul Alam II, Bodil Ipsen, Larry Semon, and Robert Z. Leonard. Among people deceased in 1963, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg ranks 100. Before him are Alan Gardiner, Rahul Sankrityayan, Elmore James, Maria Tănase, August Rei, and Karl Amadeus Hartmann. After him are Pierre Blanchar, Cilly Aussem, Ivan Bek, John Farrow, Guy Burgess, and Fernando Tambroni.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg ranks 2,666 out of 8,785. Before him are John Taylor (1960), Paul Freeman (1943), Andrew Robertson (1994), Maria Edgeworth (1768), Sylvester McCoy (1943), and Dennis Stratton (1952). After him are Charles Wesley (1707), Jonathan Sacks (1948), Jodie Whittaker (1982), Timothy Garton Ash (1955), Jenna Coleman (1986), and Peter Frampton (1950).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg ranks 64. Before him are John Fastolf (1380), Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888), John Burgoyne (1722), John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886), Jeffery Amherst, 1st Baron Amherst (1717), and Edward Vernon (1684). After him are John Paul Jones (1747), Henry Tandey (1891), Patrick Gordon (1635), George Rooke (1650), John Alcock (1892), and Edmund Ironside, 1st Baron Ironside (1880).

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