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It occurs to me that it may be because I am dead without being aware of it. This is perhaps too fanciful, if only because, as far as I am aware, my name has not yet appeared in your
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on 3 August 2006: "How can the Israelis, Bush and Blair think they can ever achieve lasting peace in the Middle East by allowing Israel to continue its futile attempt to 'defeat'
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Atcherley married first, in 1946, Anita Helen Leslie. They had one son and two daughters and divorced in 1990. He married secondly, in 1990, Elke Jessett, the daughter of
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until the war ended in 1945, then in 1946 he returned to Royal Dutch Shell. With that company he served in
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and enquiring why for two years running the newspaper had failed to include his name in its
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section... My own hunch is that my supreme unimportance may have something to do with it.
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Member, Committee of Inquiry into Pay and Related Conditions of Service of Nurses, 1974
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Can the American vision of democracy help to find a lasting peace in the Middle East?
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The son of L. W. Atcherley and his wife Maude Lester Nash, Atcherley was educated at
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Member, Committee of Inquiry into Remuneration of Members of Local Authorities, 1977
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until 1959 and was the RDS Group's Personnel co-ordinator from 1964 until 1970.
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Member of Management Committee, Suffolk Rural Housing Association, 1984–1987
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British businessman, public figure and arts administrator (1918-2017)
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Member, National Staff Committee for Nurses and Midwives, 1973–1977
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On 6 September 2001, a letter from Atcherley was published in
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Sir Harold Atcherley, businessman and former PoW – obituary
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The Week That Shook The World: Letter: A lesson for the US
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Aldeburgh Productions (formerly the Aldeburgh Foundation
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His birthday, however, has continued to be reported in
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online at xreferplus.com (accessed 9 November 2007)
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Holt, Norfolk
London
Gresham's School
Geneva University
Heidelberg University
British Army
Queen's Westminster Rifles
Intelligence Corps
18th Infantry Division
World War II
United Kingdom
Gresham's School
Holt
Geneva University
Heidelberg University
Royal Dutch Shell
Second World War
Queen's Westminster Rifles
Intelligence Corps
18th Infantry Division
Singapore
fall of Singapore
prisoner of war
Japanese
Burma Railway
Egypt
Lebanon
Syria
Argentina
Brazil

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