Doctors and the Victoria Cross

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Singleton-Coates P . General Lord Freyberg VC. London: Michael Joseph, 1963. Freyberg worked as a dentist in the South Island of New Zealand from 1907 to 1914 (p. 22). Besides the Victoria Cross, Freyberg was decorated with the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) and two Bars – the Croix Militaire de Guerre – and was six times Mentioned in Despatches. See also reference 3

Tyquin M . Neville Howse. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999:21–22

Award of the Victoria Cross. Surgeon Captain Martin-Leake. London Gazette, 18 February 1915

Skirving S . Report of a Dinner to Honour Returned Medical Officers to Sydney from World War One, 5 November 1921. Sydney Mail 17 October 1928