Carl Berendsen
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Full name | Carl August Berendsen | ||||||||||||||
Born | Sydney, New South Wales, Australia | 16 August 1890||||||||||||||
Died | 12 September 1973 Dunedin, New Zealand | (aged 83)||||||||||||||
Role | Wicket-keeper | ||||||||||||||
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1911/12 | Wellington | ||||||||||||||
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Source: Cricinfo, 26 November 2008 |
Sir Carl August Berendsen
Berendsen served as the country's first
He was born in Sydney, Australia, and educated (LLM) at Victoria University College. Berendsen served with New Zealand forces in Samoa in World War I, and from 1917 to 1919 after being called up in Trentham Camp and Sling Camp, England; then in the High Commission in London for the 1919 election and licensing polls.
In 1935, Berendsen was awarded the King George V Silver Jubilee Medal.[2] He was appointed a Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George in the 1936 King's Birthday Honours,[3] and was promoted to Knight Commander of the same order in the 1946 New Year Honours.[4] In 1953, he was awarded the Queen Elizabeth II Coronation Medal.[5]
Berendsen married Nellie Ellis Brown at St John's Church, Wellington on 15 December 1917. They had two sons.
He was a
References
- ^ Hensley 2009, p. 236.
- ^ "Official jubilee medals". Evening Post. 6 May 1935. p. 4. Retrieved 2 July 2013.
- ^ "No. 34296". The London Gazette (Supplement). 23 June 1936. p. 3999.
- ^ "No. 37410". The London Gazette (Supplement). 28 December 1945. p. 157.
- ^ "Coronation Medal" (PDF). Supplement to the New Zealand Gazette. No. 37. 3 July 1953. pp. 1021–1035. Retrieved 14 April 2021.
- Mr Ambassador: Memoirs of Sir Carl Berendsen edited by ISBN 978-0-86473-584-3
- An eye, an ear and a voice: 50 years in New Zealand's external relations edited by ISBN 0-477-03725-9
- Hensley, Gerald (2009). Beyond the Battlefield: New Zealand and its allies 1939-45. Auckland: Penguin/Viking. ISBN 9780670074044.
- Undiplomatic Dialogue: Letters between Carl Berendsen and Alister McIntosh 1943–1952 edited by Ian McGibbon (1993, Auckland University Press, Auckland NZ) ISBN 1-86940-095-X
- Unofficial Channels: Letters between Alister McIntosh and Foss Shanahan, George Laking and Frank Corner 1946–1966 edited by Ian McGibbon (1999, Victoria University Press, Wellington NZ) ISBN 0-86473-365-8
- McGibbon, Ian. "Berendsen, Carl August 1890 – 1973". Dictionary of New Zealand Biography. Ministry for Culture and Heritage. Retrieved 4 April 2011.