Major General George Walter Barber

Ranks Held Colonel, Lieutenant Colonel, Major, Major General
Birth Date 1868-11-20
Death Date 1951-07-24
Final Rank Major General
Service Australian Imperial Force
Units
  • Australian Corps
  • 4th Australian Division
  • Australian Army Medical Corps
Conflict/Operation First World War, 1914-1918
Gazettes Biographical information The Oxford companion to Australian military history in 1995
Published in London Gazette in 1917-01-01
Published in London Gazette in 1918-01-01
Published in London Gazette in 1917-06-01
Published in London Gazette in 1916-07-13
Published in London Gazette in 1919-07-11
Published in London Gazette in 1918-05-28
Published in London Gazette in 1917-12-28
Published in London Gazette in 1919-06-03
Published in London Gazette in 1918-12-31
Published in London Gazette in 1917-01-04
Published in London Gazette in 1919-01-07
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1918-10-24
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1917-06-29
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1917-06-29
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1919-10-30
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1916-11-30
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1919-09-15
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1918-04-18
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1918-04-18
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1919-05-23
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1919-05-23
Published in Commonwealth Gazette in 1917-10-04

Rolls

  • Honours and Awards (Recommendation):

    Unit
    Australian Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
  • Honours and Awards (Recommendation):

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
  • Honours and Awards:

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
    London Gazette
    28 May 1918 on page 6200 at position 2
    Commonwealth Gazette
    24 October 1918 on page 2055 at position 18
  • Honours and Awards (Recommendation):

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
  • Honours and Awards:

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
    London Gazette
    03 June 1919 on page 6790 at position 5
    Commonwealth Gazette
    15 September 1919 on page 1370 at position 4
  • Honours and Awards (Recommendation):

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
  • Honours and Awards:

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
    London Gazette
    01 January 1918 on page 6 at position 2
    Commonwealth Gazette
    18 April 1918 on page 846 at position 2
  • Honours and Awards (Recommendation):

    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
  • Honours and Awards:

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
    London Gazette
    01 June 1917 on page 5419 at position 1
    Commonwealth Gazette
    04 October 1917 on page 2622 at position 23
  • Honours and Awards:

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
    London Gazette
    11 July 1919 on page 8826 at position 2
    Commonwealth Gazette
    30 October 1919 on page 1660 at position 55
  • Honours and Awards:

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
    London Gazette
    04 January 1917 on page 256 at position 108
    Commonwealth Gazette
    29 June 1917 on page 1394 at position 6
  • Honours and Awards:

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Major
    London Gazette
    13 July 1916 on page 6955 at position 72
    Commonwealth Gazette
    30 November 1916 on page 3234 at position 59
  • Honours and Awards:

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
    London Gazette
    28 December 1917 on page 13563 at position 2
    Commonwealth Gazette
    18 April 1918 on page 841 at position 6
  • First World War Embarkation Roll:

    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Major
  • Honours and Awards:

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Lieutenant Colonel
    London Gazette
    01 January 1917 on page 28 at position 3
    Commonwealth Gazette
    29 June 1917 on page 1389 at position 9
  • Honours and Awards (Recommendation):

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Lieutenant Colonel
  • Honours and Awards (Recommendation):

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Major
  • Honours and Awards (Recommendation):

    Unit
    Australian Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
  • Honours and Awards (Recommendation):

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
  • Honours and Awards:

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
    London Gazette
    31 December 1918 on page 15225 at position 7
    Commonwealth Gazette
    23 May 1919 on page 878 at position 80
  • Honours and Awards:

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
    London Gazette
    07 January 1919 on page 312 at position 3
    Commonwealth Gazette
    23 May 1919 on page 893 at position 49
  • Honours and Awards (Recommendation):

    Unit
    4th Australian Division
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Lieutenant Colonel
  • Honours and Awards (Recommendation):

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel
  • Honours and Awards (Recommendation):

    Unit
    Australian Army Medical Corps
    Conflict
    First World War, 1914-1918
    Rank
    Colonel

Timeline

Date of birth 20 November 1868
Date of embarkation 14 December 1914
Date of recommendation honour or award 01 May 1916
Date of recommendation honour or award 10 October 1916
Date of recommendation honour or award 1917-03
Date of recommendation honour or award 20 September 1917
Date of recommendation honour or award 09 March 1918
Date of recommendation honour or award 27 September 1918
Date of death 24 July 1951