Individual Details

Frank STRAHAN

(2 Jul 1886 - 4 May 1976)

Birth	2 Jul 1886	Fryerstown, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia
Marriage	30 Mar 1914	St Paul's Anglican Church, Bendigo, Victoria, Australia - Ella Mary MOORE
News Pub (ind)	4 Nov 1935	The Argus reported: "Mr. Frank Strahan Born in Ireland in 1886, Mr. Frank Strahan, C.B.E., was educated at the University of Melbourne, where he read for the degrees of arts and law. He was secretary of the British, Australian, and New Zealand Antarctic Research Expedition, and is a governing director of Amalgamated Wireless (A/Asia) Ltd. Having acted as assistant secretary of the Prime Minister's Department several times when Mr. P. E. Deane, who was then assistant secretary, accompanied Mr. Hughes, and later Mr. Bruce, on missions overseas, Mr. Strahan was appointed permanently as assistant secretary when Mr. Deane became secretary, in 1921"
News Pub (ind)	6 Jul 1949	The News announced the following: "MR. FRANK STRAHAN, head of the Prime Minister's Department in Canberra, and secretary to the Federal Cabinet since 1935, will retire shortly from the Commonwealth Public Service. He was a close confidant of Prime Ministers Lyons, Page. Menzies, Fadden, Curtin, Ford, and Chifley"
Death	4 May 1976	Box Hill South, Victoria, Australia
Note	Jun 1976

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