A signed portrait photograph of Lieutenant general Bernard Freyberg, Lieutenant general Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Freyberg, VC, GCMG, KCB, KBE, DSO & three bars (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,[10] 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., height 35.5 cm, width 28 cm