Frank Berryman

Lieutenant General Sir Frank Horton Berryman, KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO was an Australian Army officer who served as a general during the Second World War. The son of an engine driver, he entered Duntroon in 1913. His class graduated early after the First World War broke out, and he served on the Western Front with the field artillery. After the war, he spent nearly twenty years as a major.

Frank Horton Berryman was born in Geelong, Victoria, onApril 1894, the fourth of six children and the eldest of three sons of William Lee Berryman, a Victorian Railways engine driver, and his wife, Annie Jane, ne Horton. William Berryman joined in the 1903 Victorian Railways strike and, when it failed, was reinstated with aper cent pay cut, only regaining his 1903 pay level in 1916. Frank was educated at Melbourne High School, where he served in the school Cadet Unit, and won the Rix prize for academic excellence. On graduation, he took a job with the Victorian railways as a junior draughtsman.

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