John Gellibrand /

Major General Sir John Gellibrand KCB, DSO & Bar (5 December 1872 – 3 June 1945) was an Australian Army Major General in World War I and member of the Australian House of Representatives, representing the Tasmanian Division of Denison as a Nationalist Party member from 1925 to 1928. John "Jack" Gellibrand was born at Leintwarden, near Ouse, Tasmania on 5 December 1872, the sixth child and third son of a grazier, landowner and local politician. His father died in 1874 and in 1876 his mother took her seven children to live in England. Young John Gellibrand was initially educated at Crespigny Preparatory School at Aldeburgh, Suffolk, England. In 1883 the family moved to Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany where he continued his education before completing it at King's School, Canterbury in 1888-89. After a visit to Tasmania, Jack returned to Frankfurt in 1891 to study for the entrance exam to the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He passed the exam and was admitted in 1892. Gellibrand graduated at the top of his class in 1893 and was awarded the General Proficiency Sword for gaining the highest aggregate marks in the final exams. He was commissioned a second lieutenant in the Prince of Wales'