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 during the landing
at Anzac Cove and the Gallipoli campaign against the Ottoman Turks, and
during the battles of Pozières and Mouquet Farm in France. Weir
returned to Australia at his own request at the age of 50 in late 1916,
when he was appointed as the first public service commissioner of South
Australia. In 1917 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and
was mentioned in despatches for his performance at Pozières and Mouquet
Farm. On his retirement from the Australian Military Forces in 1921, he
was given an honorary promotion to brigadier general, only the second
officer born in South Australia to reach this rank. Before his
retirement from public service in 1931, Weir was the chairman of both
the Central Board of Health and the Public Relief Board.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanley_Price_Weir>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1945:
World War II: The US Army's 90th Infantry Division liberated
Flossenbürg concentration camp in Germany, freeing 1,500 prisoners.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flossenb%C3%BCrg_concentration_camp>
1976:
The American band the Ramones released their debut album, which
became highly influential on the emerging punk rock movement.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramones_%28album%29>
1979:
Blair Peach, a British activist, was fatally injured after
being knocked unconscious during an Anti-Nazi League demonstration
against a National Front election meeting in Southall, London.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_of_Blair_Peach>
2018:
A man intentionally struck pedestrians with a van on Yonge
Street in Toronto, Canada, leading to 11 deaths.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Toronto_van_attack>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva:
(medical genetics) A very rare, disabling genetic disorder of the
connective tissue in which fibrous tissue (including ligaments, muscles,
and tendons) ossifies (“transforms into bone”) when damaged.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/fibrodysplasia_ossificans_progressiva>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
We are still waging Peloponnesian wars. Our control of the
material world and our positive science have grown fantastically. But
our very achievements turn against us, making politics more random and
wars more bestial.
--George Steiner
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_Steiner>
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