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HERRING, EDMUND FRANCIS. 1911.
M.C.E.G.S.; Trinity; Rhodes Scholar 1912; 1st XI, tennis team.
Oxford October 1914, Trooper King Edward 's Hor se; to R.F.A., 2/Lt. 7.12.14; 99th Bde., 22nd Div., with "C" Battery till March 1916 (Lieut. 1.1.16); then with "B" Battery till February 1919 (Capt. 30.4.17, Major 24.11.18); France September-Nov ember 1915; Balkans November 1915- February 1919. D.S.O. gazetted July 1919; M.C. 30.4.17; Despatches March 1919. Demob. England 22.2.19.
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Among his many public activities, Herring served as chancellor of the Church of England Diocese of Melbourne (1941-80) and as State (1945-68) and national (1958-77) president of the Australian Boy Scout Association (from 1958 the Scouts Association of Australia). President of Toc H Australia (1947-82), he was chairman of the trustees of the Melbourne Shrine of Remembrance (1945-79) and the Australian War Memorial (1959-74), and a member of the councils of Trinity College (1919-79), Melbourne Grammar (1939-40, 1941-82), the University of Melbourne (1945-57), and the Victorian Rhodes scholarship selection committee (1923-32). From 1961 a vice-president of the British and Foreign Bible Society, Herring was also chairman of the advisory board of the Council of Christian Education in Schools (1952-82). In 1953 he had led the Australian contingent to the coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. ADB entry
