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Up for sale a RARE! “British Noatables"Hand Signed Album Page. Signers are; Lady Maud Tree, Brigadier General Arthur Melland Asquith, Bernard Cyril Freyberg (1st Baron Freyberg) and Daniel Melsa.
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Helen Maud Holt (5 October 1863[1] – 7 August 1937), professionally known as Mrs
Beerbohm Tree and later Lady Tree, was an English actress.
She was the wife of the actor Herbert Beerbohm Tree and
the mother of Viola Tree, Felicity Tree and Iris Tree. After early stage appearances beginning in 1883,
Mrs Tree married and established a theatrical partnership with her husband, in
which they appeared in revivals of classic plays and productions of new plays,
first at the Theatre Royal, Haymarket and
then at Her Majesty's Theatre. Her
performances in serious roles were well received, but she was most celebrated
for her work in comedy, from Shakespeare to new works by Wilde and others. After
her husband's death in 1917, Lady Tree continued to act steadily for almost two
decades more until towards the end of her life, in plays and some films, making
her last stage appearance in 1935.
Brigadier General The
Honourable Arthur Melland Asquith, DSO & Two Bars (24 April 1883 – 25 August 1939) was a senior
officer of the Royal Naval Division,
a Royal Navy land detachment attached to the British Army during the First World War. His father, H. H. Asquith was the British Prime
Minister during the first three years of the conflict and later
became the Earl of Oxford and Asquith.
Arthur Asquith was wounded four times in the war and three times awarded
the Distinguished Service
Order for his bravery under fire. In December 1917, Asquith was
seriously wounded during fighting near Beaucamp and
was evacuated to Britain where one of his legs was amputated. Asquith retired
from the military following his wound and worked for the Ministry of Munitions.
Lieutenant
General Bernard Cyril Freyberg, 1st Baron Bars (21 March 1889 – 4 July 1963) was a
British-born New Zealand soldier and Victoria Cross recipient, who served as the 7th
Governor-General of New Zealand from 1946 to 1952. Freyberg
served as an officer in the British Army during the First World War. He took part in the beach landings during
the Gallipoli Campaign and
was the youngest general in the British Army during the First World War,[10] later serving on the Western Front,
where he was decorated with the Victoria Cross and three Distinguished Service
Orders, making him one of the most highly decorated British Empire soldiers of the First World War. He liked
to be in the thick of the action—Winston Churchill called him "the Salamander"
due to his ability to pass through fire unharmed. During the Second World War, he commanded the New Zealand Expeditionary
Force in the Battle of Crete, the North African Campaign and
the Italian Campaign.
Freyberg was involved in the Allied defeat in
the Battle of Greece, defeated
again as the Allied commander in the Battle of Crete and performed successfully
in the North African Campaign commanding
the 2nd New Zealand Division,
including during the Second Battle of El
Alamein. In Italy, he was defeated again at the Second Battle of Cassino as
a corps commander but later relieved Padua and Venice and was one of the first to enter Trieste, where he confronted Josip Broz Tito's Yugoslav Partisans. By the
end of the Second World War, Freyberg had spent ten and a half years fighting
the Germans