City of Calgary Aldermen : Roy Farran, Diane Colley-Urquhart, Yvonne Fritz, Arthur Ryan Smith, Charles Stuart, Fred J. White, Jon Lord (2010, Trade Paperback)
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 115. Not illustrated. Chapters: Roy Farran, Diane Colley-Urquhart, Yvonne Fritz, Arthur Ryan Smith, Charles Stuart, Fred J. White, Jon Lord, Douglas Cunnington, George Ho Lem, Dave Bronconnier, Robert Parkyn, Mark Tennant, Andrew Davison, Herbert Bealey Adshead, Aylmer Liesemer, Paul Brecken, Gordon Shrake, Alexander Lucas, Harold Mcgill, Ernest Starr, Andre Chabot, Brian Lee, Harold William Hounsfield Riley, Hannah Gale, John Mcneill, William Egbert, Donald Hugh Mackay, Richard Magnus, Peter Petrasuk, Bob Hawkesworth, Ross Patterson Alger, Joe Ceci, David John Russell, Tim Bardsley, James David Macdonald, Jon Havelock. Excerpt: Major Roy Alexander Farran DSO, MC & Two Bars was a British-Canadian soldier, politician, farmer, author and journalist. He was best known for his exploits with the Special Air Service during World War II, and in Israel for allegedly kidnapping and murdering a 16 year old member of the underground group Lehi, also known as the Stern Gang. He served as a politician on the municipal and provincial level in Canada by holding a seat in the Legislative Assembly of Alberta from 1971 to 1979 sitting with the Progressive Conservative caucus. He served as a cabinet minister in the government of Premier Peter Lougheed during that period. Farran was born on January 2, 1921, either in Purley, Surrey, or in India, to a family of Irish Roman Catholics. His father was a Warrant Officer in the Royal Air Force. He was educated in India at the Bishop Cotton School in the city of Simla, and then at Royal Military Academy Sandhurst. After graduating from Sandhurst, Farran was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant into the 3rd Carabiniers (Prince of Wales's Dragoon Guards) and sent to the 51st Training Regiment. He was posted on attachment to the 3rd The King's Own Hussars, which was serving in the North African Campaign at the...
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City of Calgary Aldermen : Roy Farran, Diane Colley-Urquhart, Yvonne Fritz, Arthur Ryan Smith, Charles Stuart, Fred J. White, Jon Lord