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MILITARY PERSONNEL

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. 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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg has received more than 364,408 page views. His biography is available in 24 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 23 in 2019). Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg is the 1,212th most popular military personnel (down from 1,172nd in 2019), the 2,293rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 2,411th in 2019) and the 56th most popular British Military Personnel.

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS

Among military personnels, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg ranks 1,212 out of 1,468. Before him are Paavo Talvela, Akashi Motojiro, Karl Koller, Vasily Gordov, Rolf Carls, and Eddie Chapman. After him are Maksim Purkayev, Vittorio Ambrosio, Eduard Wagner, Mikhail Chernyayev, Megabyzus, and Walther Wever.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1889, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg ranks 138. Before him are Angelo Iachino, Larry Semon, Maria Dąbrowska, Claude Rains, Lord Leopold Mountbatten, and Bernhard Karlgren. After him are Ivan Mosjoukine, Luis Miguel Sánchez Cerro, Ernest Marsden, Manuel Prado Ugarteche, Antonio Caggiano, and James Whale. Among people deceased in 1963, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg ranks 87. Before him are Luis Cernuda, Elmore James, Adolphe Menjou, Guy Burgess, Maria Tănase, and Richard Kohn. After him are Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Ivan Bek, Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz, Pingali Venkayya, Margaret Murray, and Sophus Nielsen.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg ranks 2,293 out of 7,765. Before him are Colin Clark (1905), John Atkinson Grimshaw (1836), Eddie Chapman (1914), Robert Broom (1866), Ian Richardson (1934), and Edward Arthur Milne (1896). After him are John Stott (1921), Bernard Fox (1927), Kevin Ayers (1944), Wilfred Owen (1893), Robert Stevenson (1905), and John Evelyn (1620).

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Among MILITARY PERSONNELS In United Kingdom

Among military personnels born in United Kingdom, Bernard Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg ranks 56. Before him are David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty (1871), Hugh Dowding (1882), Arthur Tedder, 1st Baron Tedder (1890), John Vereker, 6th Viscount Gort (1886), Sidney Smith (1764), and Eddie Chapman (1914). After him are Sir William Congreve, 2nd Baronet (1772), Patrick Gordon (1635), Claude Choules (1901), Horatio Gates (1727), George Rooke (1650), and Bruce Fraser, 1st Baron Fraser of North Cape (1888).

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