Lieutenant General Edmund Francis (Ned) Herring, KCMG, KBE, CBE, DSO, MC

Date of birth	1892-09-02	Maryborough, VIC.
Other	1912	Awarded a Rhodes Scholarship to Oxford University in England.
Date and unit at appointment (Officers)	1914	Commissioned into Britain's Royal Field Artillery and served in the Balkans, recieving the Distinguished Service Order and the Military Cross.
Date of honour or award	1916-02-04	Gazetted French Legion of Honour - 5th Class Chevalier.
Other	1918	Returned to Oxford to finish his law degree. Herring later returned to Melbourne.
Other	1936	Became a King's Counsel.
Date and unit at appointment (Officers)	1939-10-11	Returned to full military service as commander of the 6th Division's artillery, seeing action in North Africa and Greece.
Date returned to Australia	1941	Returned with the rank of major general.
Date of honour or award	1941-07-08	Gazetted Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).
Date and unit at appointment (Officers)	1941-08-14 - 1942-04-30	Appointed officer commanding 6th Division AIF.
Other units	1942-09	Succeeded lieutenant general Sydney Rowell as commander of New Guinea force.
Other units	1943	Added 1st Australian Corps to his command.
Date of honour or award	1943-05-28	Gazetted Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire (KBE).
Other	1944-02-02 - 1964-09-01	Appointed Chief Justice to the Supreme Court of Victoria.
Date of honour or award	1944-11-23	Gazetted Greece War Cross - First Class and US Distinguished Service Cross.
Other	1945 - 1972	Appointed Lieutenant Governor of Victoria.
Date of honour or award	1949	Knight Commander of Saint Michael and Saint George (KCMG).
Date of death	1982-01-05	Melbourne, VIC.