Stanley Price Weir
Brigadier General Stanley Price Weir, DSO, VD, JP was a public servant and Australian Army officer. He commanded the 10th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force during the landing at Anzac Cove and the subsequent Gallipoli Campaign. Weir returned to Australia at his own request in late 1916 at the age of 50.
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Brigadier General Stanley Price Weir, DSO, VD, JP was a public servant and Australian Army officer. He commanded the 10th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force during the landing at Anzac Cove and the subsequent Gallipoli Campaign. Weir returned to Australia at his own request in late 1916 at the age of 50, and in 1917 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and was mentioned in dispatches for his performance at Pozières and Mouquet Farm. He was given an honorary promotion to brigadier general on his retirement from the Australian Military Forces in 1921. In retirement he contributed to various benevolent and charitable organisations, and died in 1944. Weir was born in Norwood, South Australia, on 23 April 1866, a son of Alfred Weir and Susannah Mary. His father was a carpenter, who had emigrated to South Australia from Aberdeen, Scotland, in 1839, two years after the colony was founded. Weir attended Moore’s School, the Norwood Public School, and Pulteney Street School. In 1879 he joined the Surveyor General’s Department as an office assistant. He assisted the surveyor who pegged out the land at the rear of Government House, Adelaide, for the Torrens Parade Ground, and was later promoted to clerk.
On 14 May 1890, he married Rosa Wadham at the Christian Chapel, Norwood. Weir enlisted in the part-time South Australian Volunteer Military Force in March 1885, joining the 1st Battalion, Adelaide Rifles, as a private. On 1 July 1903, he was appointed adjutant, and promoted to major on 1 January 1904, and appointed as regimental second-in-command. On 9 September 1913 he was promoted to colonel. On 12 August 1914, Weir received a telegram from Colonel Ewen Sinclair-Maclagan, the designated commander of the 3rd Brigade, offering him the command of the 10st Battalion. Weir promptly accepted, and on 17 August was appointed as a lieutenant colonel in the AIF, making him the first South Australian to be commissioned in the Army. Weir assembled and trained his battalion at the Morphettville Racecourse, then embarked with them on the transport Ascanius on 20 October 1914 as the first convoy of Australian troops departed.
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