Edmund Herring

Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Herring (1945)

Sir Edmund Francis Herring KCMG , KBE , DSO , MC , QC (born September 2, 1892 in Maryborough , Queensland , Australia , † January 5, 1982 in Melbourne ) was an Australian lieutenant general and politician .

biography

Herring served as a soldier in the British Army in World War I and was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross .

During the Second World War he served as a colonel in the Australian Army, initially in North Africa and with the rank of major general as commander of the 6th Australian Division in Greece before he was appointed commander of the troops in New Guinea . In 1942 he was promoted to lieutenant general and was first commanding general of the 2nd Australian Corps and then from 1942 to 1944 commanding general of the 1st Corps. In 1943 he was defeated for his services to Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire . Exposed Herring looked a few years later, public criticism for his decision as commander of New Guinea troops that Papua , the Missionaries of the Imperial Japanese Army had delivered, executed should be.

In 1944 he was appointed President of the Supreme Court of Victoria (Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria) and held this office until 1964.

At the same time he was Lieutenant Governor (Lieutenant Governor) of Victoria from 1945 to 1972. As such, he was acting governor of Victoria from February 20 to October 18, 1949 between the end of Winston Dugan's term and the inauguration of Dallas Brooks . In 1949 he was inducted into the Order of St Michael and St George as Knight Commander .

Web links

• Geoff Browne: Herring, Sir Edmund Francis (Ned) (1892-1982) . In: Douglas Pike (Ed.): Australian Dictionary of Biography . Melbourne University Press, Carlton (Victoria) 1966–2012 (English).