Edmund Herring
Edmund Francis Herring
September 2, 1892(1892-09-02) – 5 January
1982 (aged 89)
Portrait of Lieutenant General Sir Edmund
Herring by William Dargie, which won the
Archibald Prize in 1945
Nickname Ned
Place of
birth
Maryborough, Victoria
Place of
death
Camberwell, Victoria
Allegiance
Australia
United Kingdom
Service/
branch
British Army (1913–1919)
Australian Army (1922–1951)
Years of
service
1913–1951
Rank
Lieutenant General
Commands
held
B Battery, 99th Brigade, Royal
Field Artillery
44th Field Artillery Battery
2nd Field Artillery Brigade
4th Field Artillery Brigade
22nd Field Artillery Brigade
Australian 6th Division
Northern Territory Force
New Guinea Force
II Corps
I Corps
Battles/
wars
First World War:
• Western front
• Macedonian front
Second World War:
• Western Desert Campaign
• Battle of Greece
• Kokoda Track campaign
• Salamaua-Lae campaign
• Huon Peninsula campaign
• Finisterre Range campaign
Awards
Knight Commander of the Order
of St Michael and St George
Knight Commander of the Order
of the British Empire
Distinguished Service Order
Military Cross
Venerable Order of Saint John
Efficiency Decoration
Distinguished Service Cross
(United States)
Other work Chief Justice of the Supreme
Court of Victoria
Lieutenant governor of Victoria
Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Francis
Herring KCMG, KBE, DSO, MC, ED, QC (2
September 1892 – 5 January 1982) was an
Australian Army officer during World War II,
Lieutenant governor of Victoria, and Chief
Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria.
A Rhodes Scholar, Herring was at New
College, Oxford when the Great War broke
out and served with the Royal Field Artillery
on the Macedonian front, for which he was
awarded the Military Cross and Distin-
guished Service Order. After the war, he
carved out a successful career as a barrister
and King’s Counsel. He also joined the Aus-
tralian Army, rising to the rank of colonel by
1939.
During World War II, he commanded the
6th Division Artillery in the Western Desert
Campaign and the Battle of Greece. In 1942,
as a co