Gellibrand returned to Anzac on 31 May 1915, to find that Forsyth had been given command of the 2nd Infantry Brigade and Foott had become AA and QMG and was now his superior.
Gellibrand expected to get another senior staff post in the reorganisation of the AIF but on 1 March 1916 he was again promoted, this time to full colonel and temporary brigadier general, and given a brigade, the 6th, on the specific request of the division commander, Major General J.
Gellibrand was acting commander of the 2nd Division until 4 March 1917, directing it in probing attacks against Malt Trench when it was suspected that the Germans were withdrawing.
Gellibrand himself, as well as to the Bar, he thought it necessary to lay before the Court, a statement, which he was prepared to put in the form of an affidavit, if the Court thought proper, of what had been told him by a Captain Ostler, at his (Mr.
Gellibrand, as a matter of course, on the credentials which he had produced, it appearing to him that the Court, according to the charter, had no other than a mere executive power to do a certain thing, when it was satisfactorily shewn that the applicant had been admitted to the King's Courts at home.
GELLIBRAND'S affidavit was a complete answer to his hearsay statement, and observed, that, notwithstanding the attempt that was made to impugn his motives yesterday, he felt it was a duty he owed to the Bar, in bringing the matter before the Court, and but justice towards Mr.
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