Stanley Price Weir, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Stanley Price Weir

public servant and Australian Army officer

Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1866

Place of Birth: Norwood, South Australia, Australia

Date of Death: 14-Nov-1944

Profession: military officer, justice of the peace

Nationality: Australia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

Brigadier General Stanley Price Weir, (23 April 1866 – 14 November 1944) was a public servant and Australian Army officer.
During World War I, he commanded the 10th Battalion of the Australian Imperial Force (AIF) during the landing at Anzac Cove and the subsequent Gallipoli Campaign, and during the Battles of Pozières and Mouquet Farm in France. 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 went on to become the first South Australian Public Service Commissioner.
He was given an honorary promotion to brigadier general on his retirement from the Australian Military Forces in 1921.
Weir was retired as public service commissioner in 1931.
In retirement he contributed to various benevolent and charitable organisations, and died in 1944.