Stanley Price Weir

Brigadier Janar Stanley Price Weir, DSO, VD, JP (23 Afrilu 1866 - 14 Nuwamba 1944) ya kasance ma'aikacin gwamnati na Australiya kuma jami'in Soja. A lokacin yakin duniya na farko, ya umurci 10th Battalion na Australian Imperial Force (AIF) a lokacin saukowa a Anzac Cove da kuma Yakin Gallipoli na gaba, da kuma lokacin yaƙe-yaƙe na Pozières da Mouquet Farm a Faransa.

Weir ya koma Ostiraliya a kan bukatarsa a ƙarshen 1916 yana da shekaru 50, kuma a cikin 1917 an ba shi lambar yabo ta Distinguished Service Order kuma An ambaci shi a cikin sakonni don aikinsa a Pozières da Mouquet Farm. Ya ci gaba da zama Kwamishinan Ayyukan Jama'a na Kudancin Australia na farko. An ba shi ci gaba na girmamawa zuwa Brigadier Janar a lokacin da ya yi ritaya daga Sojojin Australiya a 1921. Weir ya yi ritaya a matsayin kwamishinan sabis na jama'a a 1931. A lokacin da ya yi ritaya ya ba da gudummawa ga kungiyoyi masu ba da agaji da agaji, kuma ya mutu a 1944.

 Rayuwa ta farko 
An haifi Weir a Norwood, Kudancin Australia, a ranar 23 ga Afrilu 1866, ɗan Alfred Weir da Susannah Mary (née Price). Mahaifinsa masassaƙi ne,  wanda ya yi hijira zuwa Kudancin Australia daga Aberdeen, Scotland, a cikin 1839, shekaru biyu bayan An kafa mulkin mallaka. Stanley Weir ya halarci Makarantar Moore, Makarantar Jama'a ta Norwood, da Makarantar Pulteney Street. A shekara ta 1879, yana da shekaru 13, ya shiga Sashen Janar na Surveyor a matsayin mataimakin ofis. Ya taimaka wa mai binciken da ya tsara ƙasar a bayan Gidan Gwamnati, Adelaide, don Torrens Parade Ground, kuma daga baya aka inganta shi zuwa magatakarda. A ranar 14 ga Mayu 1890, ya auri Rosa Wadham a Cocin Kirista, Norwood . Ya tashi ta hanyar sashen don a nada shi mai kula da kantin sayar da kayayyaki, mai kula da tsare-tsare da mai kula da motocin gwamnati, a ranar 1 ga Yulin 1911. An nada shi a matsayin mai shari'a na zaman lafiya a ranar 10 ga Satumba 1914.

 Ayyukan soja na farko 
Weir ya shiga cikin rundunar sojan sa kai ta Kudancin Australia a watan Maris na shekara ta 1885, ya shiga 1st Battalion, Adelaide Rifles, a matsayin mai zaman kansa. A shekara ta 1890, an kara shi zuwa sajan launi. An ba shi izini a matsayin mataimakin a cikin 3rd Battalion, Adelaide Rifles, a ranar 19 ga Maris 1890, kuma an kara shi zuwa kyaftin a ranar 25 ga Mayu 1893. Lokacin da Yaƙin Afirka ta Kudu ya ɓarke ya ba da kansa don yin aiki tare da Kudancin Australia Bushmen's Corps, amma an fi son jami'an da ke kan doki, kuma ba a zaba shi ba.

A ranar 1 ga Yulin 1903, Adelaide Rifles ya zama 10th Infantry Regiment na Sojojin Commonwealth, kuma an nada Weir a matsayin adjutant. An ɗaukaka shi zuwa babba a ranar 1 ga Janairun 1904, kuma an nada shi a matsayin na biyu a cikin kwamandan. An ba shi lambar yabo ta Long Service and Good Conduct a cikin 1905, da kuma Kyautar Jami'an Sa kai a cikin 1908. A ranar 22 ga watan Yunin 1908, an kara Weir zuwa Colonel" id="mwXQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Lieutenant colonel">Lieutenant Colonel kuma an nada shi kwamandan kwamandan 10th Infantry Regiment. A ranar 1 ga Janairun 1912, an canja shi zuwa jerin da ba a haɗa su ba amma wannan ya kasance har zuwa 1 ga Yuli, lokacin da aka gabatar da Tsarin horo na duniya. Ba da daɗewa ba aka nada shi ya zama kwamandan Brigade na 19th Infantry, kuma a ranar 9 ga Satumba 1913 an kara shi zuwa kolonel.

 Yaƙin Duniya na I 
A ranar 12 ga watan Agustan shekara ta 1914, bayan barkewar Yaƙin Duniya na farko, Weir ya karbi sakon waya daga Colonel Ewen Sinclair-MacLagan, kwamandan da aka zaba na Brigade na 3, yana ba shi umurnin Battalion na 10. Weir nan da nan ya yarda, kuma a ranar 17 ga watan Agusta an nada shi a matsayin mataimakin kwamandan a cikin Australian Imperial Force (AIF), wanda ya sa ya zama na farko na Kudancin Australia da za a ba shi izini a cikin AIF. Ya riƙe matsayinsa na kolonel a cikin sojojin ɗan lokaci a matsayin girmamawa.

 Gallipoli 
Weir ya taru kuma ya horar da rundunarsa a Morphettville Racecourse, sannan ya tashi tare da su a kan sufuri Ascanius a ranar 20 ga Oktoba 1914 yayin da rundunar farko ta sojojin Australiya ta tashi don sabis na kasashen waje. Lokacin da suka isa Fremantle, kamfanoni shida na 11th Battalion sun fara sufuri, kuma an nada Weir a matsayin Jami'in Kwamandan Sojoji don tafiyar. Sojojin sun fara sauka a Alexandria a ranar 6 ga Disamba, 1914, kuma an kai su Alkahira, inda suka fara kafa sansani a Mena. Masanin tarihin yakin Australiya, Charles Bean, ya bayyana Weir a matsayin "ɗan sama da matsakaici a cikin shekaru" ga kwamandan battalion. Bayan shawarar Allied na sauka da karfi a kan tsibirin Gallipoli, an zaɓi Brigade na 3 a matsayin ikon rufewa don saukowa a Anzac Cove. Battalion na 11 ya tashi zuwa tsibirin Girka na Lemnos a arewacin Tekun Aegean a ranar 1 ga Maris 1915, kuma bayan ci gaba da horo a Lemnos, battalion na ɗaya daga cikin battalions biyu na farko da suka sauka a safiyar 25 ga Afrilu 1915. 

 Rayuwa ta baya 
alt=a black and white photograph of a male in uniform with peaked cap pinning a medal on the jacket of a second male in uniform wearing a pith helmet|thumb|Weir (hagu na gaba) yana karɓar Kyautar Sabis daga Gwamnan Kudancin Australia, Lieutenant-Colonel Sir Henry Lionel Galway, a Keswick Barracks a ranar 15 ga Janairun 1919

 Kyaututtuka 
alt=a stone gravestone|thumb|Kabarin Weir a Kabari na West Terrace, Adelaide, Kudancin Australia

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