COLONEL FREYBERG, V.C.
APPOINTMENT AT WAR OFFICE Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. LONDON, September 15. Lieutenant-colonel Freyberg, V.C., the ex-New Zealander, has been appointed a general staff officer of the lirst grade at the War Office. [Colonel Freyberg, who is thirty-three years of age, was born in London. He came out to New Zealand with his parents as a child and was educated at Wellington College. He is at present serving in the Grenadier Guards. In the war ho served with distinction and was many times wounded. He gained the Victoria Cross in 1916. In the previous year ho bad won the D.S.O. by his famous swim in the Gulf of Saros, when, with his skin painted khaki, he lit flares in the water to draw the Turkish fire.l
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Evening Star, Issue 21519, 18 September 1933, Page 9
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