Dame Mary Ranken Herring, Lady Herring, was an Australian medical practitioner and community worker.
Mary Herring portrait
Lady Herring (with hat) looks on as Sir Edmund Herring, the new Chief Justice of Victoria, greets guests at an informal reception in his rooms.
Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Francis Herring, was a senior Australian Army officer during the Second World War, Lieutenant Governor of Victoria, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Victoria. A
Mary Herring
…as a medical student. She was captain of the women's tennis and hockey teams, obtaining University Sporting Blue in both sports. In 1918 she had met Edmund (Ned) Herring, then a young Australian captain in the British Army on leave from the Macedonian front of the Great War. During her training, she worked with the…
Portrait of Lieutenant General Sir Edmund Herring
25-pounder gun crew of the 2/1st Field Artillery Regiment at Bardia
Members of the 6th Division march past Major General Herring at Darwin during 1942
Herring (second from left) in Papua in October 1942 with General Douglas MacArthur (centre) and Major General Arthur Samuel Allen (right)