Stanley Price Weir (23 April 1866 – 14 November 1944) was a public servant and Australian Army officer. He was awarded the Volunteer Officers' Decoration in 1908, and appointed a justice of the peace in 1914. 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 South Australian Public Service Commissioner. In 1917 he was awarded the Distinguished Service Order and was mentioned in dispatches 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 South Australia-born officer to reach this rank. Before his retirement as Public Service Commissioner in 1931, Weir was the chairman of both the Central Board of Health and the Public Relief Board. He led an active retirement, contributing to several religious, charitable and welfare organisations.

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_______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries:

1016:

Edmund Ironside became King of England, reigning for only seven months before the country was conquered by Cnut the Great. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edmund_Ironside

1516:

The most well-known version of the Reinheitsgebot, the German Beer Purity Law was adopted across the entirety of Bavaria. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reinheitsgebot

1918:

First World War: The British Royal Navy conducted a raid on the Belgian port of Bruges-Zeebrugge. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeebrugge_Raid

1951:

American journalist William N. Oatis was arrested for espionage by the Communist government of Czechoslovakia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_N._Oatis

2010:

Governor of Arizona Jan Brewer signed the controversial anti- illegal immigration bill SB 1070 into law. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arizona_SB_1070

_____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day:

all the world's a stage: People have roles to play in life just as actors do in the theatre. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/all_the_world%27s_a_stage

___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day:

The quality of mercy is not strain'd, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice bless’d; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes. ’Tis mightiest in the mightiest; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown; His sceptre shows the force of temporal power, The attribute to awe and majesty, Wherein doth sit the dread and fear of kings; But mercy is above this sceptred sway, It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; And earthly power doth then show likest God’s, When mercy seasons justice.   --The Merchant of Venice https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/The_Merchant_of_Venice