• Major General Alan Bishop Stretton, AO, CBE (30 September 1922 – 26 October 2012) was a senior Australian Army officer. He came to public prominence through...
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  • Alan Murdoch Stretton (born 1930s) is an Australian civil engineer, project management manager, retired Adjunct Professor of Project Management at the...
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  • Stretton is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Alan Stretton (1922–2012), Australian Army officer Alan M. Stretton (born 1930s), Australian...
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  • 2012 – Alan Kirschenbaum, American director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1961) 2012 – Björn Sieber, Austrian skier (b. 1989) 2012 – Alan Stretton, Australian...
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    1917 2013 Scientist; 1975 Nobel Prize in Chemistry recipient MAJGEN Alan Stretton AO, CBE 1922 2012 Australian Army officer; managed Cyclone Tracy cleanup...
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    the city's water and sewerage systems.[citation needed] Major-General Alan Stretton, Director-General of the Natural Disasters Organization, and the commonwealth...
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    festivals. Stretton died of lung cancer at Prince of Wales Hospital in Randwick on 16 November 2007 at the age of 55. She was survived by her partner Alan, her...
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  • Krzysztof Pacławski; Magdalena Luty-Błocho; Krzysztof Fitzner; Paul Oakley; Alan Stretton (2009). "Synthesis of Gold Nanoparticles in a Flow Microreactor". Rudy...
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    was named the Australian of the Year in 1975, jointly with Maj. Gen. Alan Stretton. In 1977, Cornforth was recognised by his alma mater, the University...
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  • Canberra award when he presented the inaugural honour to Major General Alan Stretton, the commander of the emergency response to Cyclone Tracy. The Canberra...
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  • 1976 Malcolm Fraser Prime Minister 1975 joint winners Major General Alan Stretton AO, CBE Head of National Disasters Organisation (Cyclone Tracy relief...
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    Edward Bishop (Len) Stretton (1893–1967) was a notable Judge and Royal Commissioner in the State of Victoria, Australia. Stretton was born on 10 October...
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  • Northern Territory administrator Jock Nelson criticises Major General Alan Stretton's plan to recommend that emergency directors be given absolute authority...
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  • Admiral Sir Alan McNicoll. Brigadier General Sir Walter McNicoll was the father of Major General Ronald McNicoll and Vice Admiral Sir Alan McNicoll. Major...
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  • emeritus of philosophy at Brooklyn College, City University of New York Alan Stretton University of Tasmania Lincoln 1948 Australia Civil engineer and project...
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  • disaster. The film features Aunty Kathy Mills, Dr Ella Stack, General Alan Stretton, Mayor Tiger Brennan, Prime Minister Gough Whitlam, publisher and writer...
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  • small grants of land or property rights. He gave land at his manor of Stretton-on-Dunsmore in Warwickshire to Burton Abbey. He granted the tithes from...
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    General, WWI, Commander 5th Brigade Sir Clive Steele – Major General Alan Stretton – Major General, Head of National Disaster Organisation, responsible...
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  • Sidney Stretton (20 November 1902 – 14 January 1984) was an English cricketer. Stretton was a left-handed batsman who bowled left-arm fast. He was born...
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  • Gordon Brunnen 26 0 1946–1947 1946 Bill Carmody 18 19 1946–1947 1946 Alan Stretton 16 10 1946–1947 1946 Jack Meehan 38 1 1946–1950 1946 Ken Mulhall 134...
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  • George Newberry, and Alan Newton. He was born in Epsom, Surrey and died in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. "Ronald Charles Stretton". The Globe and Mail. Retrieved...
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  • Association (SOOCA). Some notable Old Collegians include: Academic Alan Stretton – academic and Rhodes Scholar Business Sir Edgar Coles – former Managing...
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  • collision. Björn Sieber, 23, Austrian alpine skier, traffic collision. Alan Stretton, 90, Australian major general, disaster recovery leader (Cyclone Tracy)...
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    the day after Cyclone Tracy, he flew into Darwin with Major-General Alan Stretton and they took responsibility for rebuilding Darwin. In June 1975, Patterson's...
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    Little Stretton Halt was a minor railway station on the Welsh Marches Line between Craven Arms and Church Stretton in Shropshire, England. Opened by the...
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    new Army Headquarters in Canberra, following its move from Melbourne. Alan Stretton, executive officer to the Military Board at the time, recalled Garrett's...
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  • All Stretton Halt was a minor railway station on the Welsh Marches Line between Shrewsbury and Church Stretton in the English county of Shropshire. Opened...
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  • Professor emeritus Hugh Stretton AC (15 July 1924 – 18 July 2015) was an Australian historian who wrote books on politics, urban planning and economics...
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    St Matthew's Church is in the village of Stretton, Cheshire, England. The church is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated...
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    Sloane Williams 767 16 10% Labour Helen Alice Jeffrey 336 7 0% UKIP Alan Stretton Simpson 197 4 20% Majority 1740 Turnout 4806 41 Conservative hold Swing...
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