Sir John Gellibrand (1872-1945) served as a divisional commander in the Australian army during World War One. Born on 5 December 1872 in Leintwarden in Tasmania the son of a landowner and politician, Gellibrand was brought to England by his mother in 1876 upon the death of his father. Educated in both England and Frankfurt-am-Main (in Germany), Gellibrand was admitted to Sandhurst in 1882, thus beginning his eventful, if sometimes interrupted, military service. Graduating at the top of his class at Sandhurst Gellibrand's outspoken unconventionality nevertheless succeeded in alienating him from both his contemporaries as well as those in senior positions. Thus despite serving with distinction during the South African War of 1899-1902 he was unexpectedly placed on half-pay in 1912 following a wave of army reductions. He chose to leave the army rather than remain as a half-pay officer. Having settled albeit temporarily as a farmer he immediately offered his services when war broke out in August 1914. Sixteen days later, on 20 August 1914, he was appointed to the Australian Imperial Force with the rank of Captain and assigned the post of Deputy Assistant Quartermaster General with William Bridge's 1st Division. Eventually winding up in Gallipoli via Egypt, Gellibrand drew the ire of Bridges for his apparent inability to organise an officer's mess of sufficient quality. It is feasible that Gellibrand - whose staff-work Bridges also faulted - may have been broken by Bridges but for the latter's fatal wound at the hands of a Turkish sniper on 15 May 1915. Wounded himself by the fragments of an exploding shell Gellibrand returned to Anzac Cove following a spell of recuperation on 31 May 1915, 13 days following Bridge's death. Transferred to 2nd Division in Egypt the following month he returned to Gallipoli with them in September 1915. Suffering typhoid for the second time in October 1915 (having first been taken ill during the Boer War) Gellibrand was evacuated for the briefest of recuperation before returning on 23 October. For his ongoing services at Gallipoli Gellibrand was awarded the Distinguished Service Order (DSO) medal. BEST VIEWED ZOOOOOMED!