28 May 1981(1981-05-28) (aged 87) Rose Bay, New South Wales
Allegiance
Australia
Service/branch
Australian Army
Years of service
1913–1954
Rank
Lieutenant General
Service number
VX20308
Commands held
Eastern Command (1946–51, 1952–53) I Corps (1944) II Corps (1943–44) Deputy Chief of the General Staff (1942–44) 14th Field Artillery Battery (1918) 18th Field Artillery Battery (1917–18)
Battles/wars
First World War
Battle of Pozières
Second Battle of Bullecourt
Battle of Passchendaele
Hundred Days Offensive
Second World War
Western Desert campaign
Syria-Lebanon campaign
Netherlands East Indies campaign
Battle of Buna-Gona
Salamaua–Lae campaign
Finisterre Range campaign
Huon Peninsula campaign
Philippines campaign (1944–45)
Borneo campaign
Awards
Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Companion of the Order of the Bath Commander of the Order of the British Empire Distinguished Service Order Mention in Despatches (4) Medal of Freedom (US)
Other work
Director General of the Royal Tour Chief Executive Officer of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales
Lieutenant General Sir Frank Horton Berryman, KCVO, CB, CBE, DSO (11 April 1894 – 28 May 1981) 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.
Berryman joined the Second Australian Imperial Force (AIF) on 4 April 1940 with the rank of full colonel, and became General Staff Officer Grade 1 (GSO1) of the 6th Division. He was responsible for the staff work for the attacks on Bardia and Tobruk. In January 1941, Berryman became Commander, Royal Artillery, 7th Division, and was promoted to brigadier. During the Syria-Lebanon campaign, he commanded "Berryforce". He returned to Australia in 1942, becoming Major General, General Staff, of the First Army. Later that year, he became Deputy Chief of the General Staff under the Commander in Chief, General Sir Thomas Blamey, who brought him up to Port Moresby to simultaneously act as chief of staff of New Guinea Force. Berryman was intimately involved with the planning and execution of the Salamaua–Lae campaign and the Huon Peninsula campaign. In November 1943 he became acting commander of II Corps, which he led in the Battle of Sio. In the final part of the war, he was Blamey's representative at General of the Army Douglas MacArthur's headquarters and the Australian Army representative at the Japanese surrender in Tokyo Bay.
After the war, Berryman commanded Eastern Command. He directed the military response to the 1949 Australian coal strike. Berryman hoped to become Chief of the General Staff but was passed over as he was seen as a "Blamey man" by Prime Minister Ben Chifley. He retired and became the Director General of the Royal Tour of Queen Elizabeth II in 1954. He was chief executive officer of the Royal Agricultural Society of New South Wales from 1954 to 1961.
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Japanese surrender talks. Left to right: Commodore John Collins; Lieutenant General FrankBerryman; Captain Roy Dowling; Air Commodore Raymond Brownell....
(1921), Sir George Pearce (1927), Sir Leighton Bracegirdle (1947), Sir FrankBerryman (1954), Sir Eric Harrison (1954), Sir John Lavarack (1954), Sir John...
College, Duntroon, which had opened in 1911. Their number included FrankBerryman, William Bridgeford, Cyril Clowes, Horace Robertson, Sydney Rowell and...
died in the Great War. Six later became generals: Leslie Beavis, Frank Horton Berryman, William Bridgeford, John Chapman, Edward James Milford and Vasey...
commands in the 6th Division be given to Militia officers. Colonel FrankBerryman considered this "a damn insult to the professional soldier, calculated...
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Regiment was to act as a rearguard on the coast. Lieutenant General FrankBerryman, the commander of Australian II Corps, now urged Wootten to commence...
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Lucia, Queensland, the Deputy Chief of the General Staff, Major General FrankBerryman, headed the planning process. A model of the Lae-Salamaua area was constructed...
Name Living Date Citation Reference and comments FrankBerryman 1954 Director-General of the 1954 Royal Tour [237] Leighton Bracegirdle 1947 Official Secretary...
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