SIR BERNARD FREYBERG CREATED A BARON

Press, Volume LXXXVII, Issue 26441, 7 June 1951, Page 7

SIR BERNARD FREYBERG CREATED A BARON

British Honours List

(N.Z. Press Association—Copyright) (Rec. 11 p.m.) ' LONDON, June 6. The Governor-General of New Zealand, Lieuten-ant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg, was created a Baron in the King’s Birthday Honours announced to-day. Sir Bernard Freyberg, V.C., who has been GovernorGeneral of New Zealand since 1946, had an extraordinary record of valour and distinction in the two World Wars. He was commander of the 2nd New Zealand Expeditionary Force throughout the Second World War, and led the 2nd New Zealand Division in action in all its theatres of war. In World War I he became a Brigadier at the age of 27. He won the Victoria Cross for valour in France, won the D.S.O. with two bars, was wounded nine times, and six times mentioned in dispatches. He won a third bar to his D.S.O. in World War 11. Educated at Wellington College, Sir Bernard Freyberg had a brilliant career as a swimmer in his youth. Between the’ two world wars he held a number of peace-time commands in the British Army. The list of honours is:—

BARONS Aiderman Valentine la Touche MoEntee, member of Parliament for West Walthamstow. Mr Ernest Whitfield, for political and public services. Lieutenant-General Sir Bernard Freyberg, Governor-General of New Zealand. ORDER OF MERIT Professor George Edward Moore, Professor of Philosophy at Cambridge from 1925 to 1939. PRIVY COUNSELLORS Mr David Rhys Grenfell, former Secretary for Mines, for political and public services. Mr Kenneth Younger, .Minister of State. ORDER OF THE BATH KNIGHTS COMMANDER Military Division Vice-Admiral Alexander Madden. Air Chief Marshal Sir William Eiliot. Air Chief Marshal Sir Hugh Pughe Lloyd. Air Chief Marshal Sir George Clark Pirie. , KNIGHT GRAND CROSS General Sir John Harding, Com-mander-in-Chief Far East land forces. CIVIL DIVISION Sir Norman Brook, Secretary of the Cabinet. ORDER OF ST. MICHAEL AND ST. GEORGE KNIGHT GRAND CROSS Sir Alexander Grantham, Governor of Hong Kong. BARONET Aiderman Denys Lowson, Lord Mayor of London. KNIGHTS Mr Gerald Barry, Director-General of the Festival of Britain. Mr Ernest Bullock, Principal of the Royal Scottish Academy of Music. Mr Christopher Chancellor, general manager of Reuters. Lieutenant-General John Evetts, head of the United Kingdom supply staff in Australia. Mr Richard Sneddon, general manager of the International Shipping Federation. Mr Godfrey Tearle, ail actor.