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Guildford Grammar School, informally known as Guildford Grammar, Guildford or GGS, is a co-educational independent, day and boarding school situated in Guildford, a suburb of Perth, Western Australia. [1]

97 relations: A. J. Carter, Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, Alex Rance, Amadeus, Andrew Denton, Anglicanism, Aquinas College, Perth, Archie Weller, Arnold Potts, Australia, Australian Football League, Australian rules football, Ben Carlin, Billiard room, Boarding school, Brendon Julian, Bruce Duperouzel, Carl Vine, Carlton Football Club, Charles Harper (politician), Christian Brothers' College, Perth, City of Perth, Clancee Pearce, Con Michael, Corey Adamson, Cricket, Cruize Garlett, Cruze Ah-Nau, David Ellard, David Malcolm, David Moody, Day school, Deborah Vernon Hackett, Dux, Elizabeth II, Ford GPA, Francis Burt, Fremantle Football Club, George V, Gerald Ugle, Governor of Western Australia, Grammar school, Guildford, Western Australia, Hale School, Heath Ledger, Heritage Council of Western Australia, Incorporation (business), Independent Primary School Heads of Australia, Independent school, James Stirling (Royal Navy officer), ..., Jesus Christ Superstar, John Day (Australian politician), John McGuire (sportsman), John Steffensen, Kade Harvey, Karl Langdon, Kenneth Mackenzie (author), Kevin O'Halloran, Kim Hames, Kindergarten, List of boarding schools, List of schools in Perth metropolitan area, Luke Miles, Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council, Michael Gannon (obstetrician), Minkey, N'fa, Paul Murray (journalist), Percy Henn, Perth, Peter Pan, Piers Akerman, Primary education, Public school (United Kingdom), Public Schools Association, Quercus robur, Randolph Stow, Robert Freeth, School, Scotch College, Perth, Secondary school, Simon Beasley, Single-sex education, Swan River (Western Australia), Tertiary Entrance Exam, The West Australian, Tom Moody, Vernon Hamersley, Vice-Chief of the Air Staff (United Kingdom), Wallace Kyle, West Coast Eagles, Western Australia, World War II, Year Seven, Year Six, Year Twelve, 1956 Summer Olympics. Expand index (47 more) »

A. J. Carter

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Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

The Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (often referred to as the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor) is an award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS).

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Alex Rance

Alex James Rance (born 9 October 1989) is a professional Australian rules footballer playing for the Richmond Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Amadeus

Amadeus is a play by Peter Shaffer, which gives a highly fictionalized account of the lives of the composers Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart and Antonio Salieri.

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Andrew Denton

Andrew Christopher Denton (born 4 May 1960) is an Australian television producer, comedian, Gold Logie-nominated television presenter and former radio host, and was the host of the ABC's weekly television interview program Enough Rope and the ABC game show Randling.

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Anglicanism

Anglicanism is a Western Christian tradition that evolved out of the practices, liturgy and identity of the Church of England following the Protestant Reformation.

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Aquinas College, Perth

Aquinas College is a Catholic independent, day and boarding school for boys at Salter Point, Perth, Western Australia.

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Archie Weller

Archie Weller (born 13 July 1957) is an Australian award winning writer of novels, short stories and screen plays.

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Arnold Potts

Brigadier Arnold William Potts, (16 September 1896 – 1 January 1968) was an Australian grazier and army officer who served in the First World War and led the 21st Brigade of the Second Australian Imperial Force during its defence of the Kokoda Trail during the Second World War.

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Australia

Australia, officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a sovereign country comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania and numerous smaller islands.

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Australian Football League

The Australian Football League (AFL) is the pre-eminent professional competition in the sport of Australian rules football in Australia and features only Australian teams.

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Australian rules football

Australian rules football, officially known as Australian football, or simply called Aussie rules, football or footy, is a contact sport played between two teams of eighteen players on an oval-shaped field, often a modified cricket ground.

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Ben Carlin

Frederick Benjamin "Ben" Carlin (27 July 1912 – 7 March 1981) was an Australian adventurer who was the first and only person to circumnavigate the world in an amphibious vehicle.

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Billiard room

A billiard room (also billiards room, or more specifically pool room, snooker room) is a recreation room, such as in a house or recreation center, with a billiards, pool or snooker table.

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Boarding school

A boarding school provides education for pupils who live on the premises, as opposed to a day school.

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Brendon Julian

Brendon Paul Julian (born 10 August 1970, Hamilton, New Zealand) is a former Australian cricketer who played in 7 Tests and 25 ODIs from 1993 to 1999.

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Bruce Duperouzel

Bruce Duperouzel (born 21 April 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with St Kilda and Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL).

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Carl Vine

Carl Vine, (born 8 October 1954), is an Australian composer of contemporary classical music.

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Carlton Football Club

The Carlton Football Club, nicknamed the Blues, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Melbourne, Victoria.

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Charles Harper (politician)

Charles Harper (15 July 1842 – 20 April 1912) was a pastoralist, newspaper proprietor and politician in colonial Western Australia.

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Christian Brothers' College, Perth

Christian Brothers College, informally known as CBC Perth or The Terrace was an Independent school for boys situated on St Georges Terrace in the centre of Perth, Western Australia.

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City of Perth

The City of Perth is a local government area and body, within the Perth metropolitan area, which is the capital of Western Australia.

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Clancee Pearce

Clancee Pearce (born 23 October 1990) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Fremantle Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Con Michael

Constantine Anthony "Con" Michael (born 12 January 1953) is a former Australian cricketer who played three first-class matches for Western Australia.

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Corey Adamson

Corey Adamson (born 23 February 1992) is an Australian sportsman who has played both professional baseball and professional Australian rules football.

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Cricket

Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players each on a cricket field, at the centre of which is a rectangular pitch with a target at each end called the wicket (a set of three wooden stumps upon which two bails sit).

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Cruize Garlett

Cruize Garlett (born 6 March 1989) is an Australian rules footballer who played for North Melbourne in the Australian Football League (AFL) between 2009 and 2012.

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Cruze Ah-Nau

Cruze Ah-Nau (born 10 August 1990) is an Australian rugby union footballer who plays as a prop.

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David Ellard

David Ellard (born 13 March 1989) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Carlton Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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David Malcolm

David Kingsley Malcolm, AC, QC (6 May 1938 – 20 October 2014) was the Chief Justice of Western Australia from May 1988 until his retirement from the bench in February 2006.

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David Moody

David Moody (born 19 November 1970) is an English horror writer.

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Day school

A day school—as opposed to a boarding school—is an educational institution where children (or high school age adolescents) are given instruction during the day, after which the students return to their homes.

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Deborah Vernon Hackett

Deborah Vernon Buller Murphy (née Drake-Brockman, previously Hackett and Moulden; 18 June 1887 – 16 April 1965), best known as Lady Hackett or Lady Moulden, was an Australian community worker, philanthropist, and mining investor.

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Dux

Dux (plural: ducēs) is Latin for "leader" (from the noun dux, ducis, "leader, general") and later for duke and its variant forms (doge, duce, etc.). During the Roman Republic, dux could refer to anyone who commanded troops, including foreign leaders, but was not a formal military rank.

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Elizabeth II

Elizabeth II (Elizabeth Alexandra Mary; born 21 April 1926) is Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms.

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Ford GPA

The Ford GPA 'Seep' (Government 'P' Amphibious, where 'P' stood for its 80-inch wheelbase) was an amphibious version of the WWII Ford GPW Jeep.

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Francis Burt

Sir Francis Theodore Page Burt (14 June 1918 – 8 September 2004) was an Australian jurist who served as the 11th Chief Justice of Western Australia, from 1977 to 1988, and the 29th Governor of Western Australia, from 1990 to 1993.

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Fremantle Football Club

The Fremantle Football Club, nicknamed the Dockers, is a professional Australian rules football team that competes in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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George V

George V (George Frederick Ernest Albert; 3 June 1865 – 20 January 1936) was King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor of India, from 6 May 1910 until his death in 1936.

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Gerald Ugle

Gerald Ugle (born 31 January 1993) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Governor of Western Australia

The Governor of Western Australia is the representative in Western Australia of the Queen of Australia, Elizabeth II.

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Grammar school

A grammar school is one of several different types of school in the history of education in the United Kingdom and other English-speaking countries, originally a school teaching Latin, but more recently an academically-oriented secondary school, differentiated in recent years from less academic Secondary Modern Schools.

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Guildford, Western Australia

Guildford is a suburb of Perth, Western Australia, 12 km northeast of the city centre.

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Hale School

Hale School is a selective independent, Anglican day and boarding school for boys, located in Wembley Downs, a coastal suburb of Perth, Western Australia.

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Heath Ledger

Heath Andrew Ledger (4 April 197922 January 2008) was an Australian actor and director.

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Heritage Council of Western Australia

The Heritage Council of Western Australia is the Government of Western Australia agency created to identify, conserve and promote places of cultural heritage significance in the state.

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Incorporation (business)

Incorporation is the formation of a new corporation (a corporation being a legal entity that is effectively recognized as a person under the law).

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Independent Primary School Heads of Australia

The Independent Primary School Heads of Australia (IPSHA) formerly Junior School Heads Association of Australia (JSHAA), is an incorporated body representing the heads of independent primary schools in Australia.

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Independent school

An independent school is independent in its finances and governance; it is usually not dependent upon national or local government to finance its operations, nor reliant on taxpayer contributions, and is instead funded by a combination of tuition charges, donations, and in some cases the investment yield of an endowment.

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James Stirling (Royal Navy officer)

Admiral Sir James Stirling (28 January 179122 April 1865) was a British naval officer and colonial administrator.

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Jesus Christ Superstar

Jesus Christ Superstar is a 1970 rock opera with music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice.

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John Day (Australian politician)

John Howard Dadley Day (born 24 December 1955) is an Australian politician.

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John McGuire (sportsman)

John Peter McGuire (born 14 July 1954) is a former Australian rules football player and cricketer.

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John Steffensen

John William Steffensen (born 30 August 1982) is an Australian former track and field athlete, who specialised in 200 and 400 metres.

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Kade Harvey

Kade Murray Harvey (born 7 October 1975) in Perth, Western Australia was an Australian cricketer who played first class cricket for the Western Warriors.

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Karl Langdon

Karl John Langdon (born 28 March 1968) is a leading sports commentator and radio personality in Western Australia and a former Australian rules footballer with the Subiaco Football Club and the West Coast Eagles.

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Kenneth Mackenzie (author)

Kenneth Ivo Brownley Langwell Mackenzie (25 September 1913 – 19 January 1955) was an Australian poet and novelist.

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Kevin O'Halloran

Kevin O'Halloran (3 March 1937 – 5 July 1976) was an Australian freestyle swimmer of the 1950s who won a gold medal in the 4×200-metre freestyle relay at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne.

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Kim Hames

Kim Desmond Hames (born 24 March 1953) is an Australian politician who was a Liberal Party member of the Legislative Assembly of Western Australia from 1993 to 2001 and from 2005 to 2017.

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Kindergarten

Kindergarten (from German, literally meaning 'garden for the children') is a preschool educational approach based on playing, singing, practical activities such as drawing, and social interaction as part of the transition from home to school.

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List of boarding schools

This list includes notable boarding schools (where some or all people study and live during the school year) offering a curriculum in English and other languages.

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List of schools in Perth metropolitan area

This is a list of schools in the city of Perth, Western Australia.

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Luke Miles

Luke Miles (born 30 October 1986) is an Australian rules footballer who has played for the St Kilda Football Club in the Australian Football League (AFL) and Swan Districts Football Club in the Western Australian Football League (WAFL).

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Members of the Western Australian Legislative Council

Following are lists of members of the Western Australian Legislative Council: Prior to responsible government.

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Michael Gannon (obstetrician)

Michael Gannon is a Western Australian obstetrician and gynaecologist.

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Minkey

Minkey is a modified form of field hockey designed for primary school children.

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N'fa

N'fa (born N'fa Forster-Jones; also known as N'fa Jones, 21 March 1979) is an African Australian hip hop recording artist born in London, but raised in Perth, Western Australia, best known as the frontman for 1200 Techniques.

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Paul Murray (journalist)

Paul Murray is a former working journalist and later editor of The West Australian newspaper who resigned and was later retained to write opinion articles for the same newspaper.

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Percy Henn

Reverend Canon Percy Umfreville Henn (21 January 1865 in Manchester, England – 25 February 1955 in Perth, Western Australia) was a clergyman and teacher in England and later Western Australia.

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Perth

Perth is the capital and largest city of the Australian state of Western Australia.

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Peter Pan

Peter Pan is a fictional character created by Scottish novelist and playwright J. M. Barrie.

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Piers Akerman

Piers Akerman (born 12 June 1950) is an Australian journalist, conservative commentator and columnist for the Sydney newspaper ''The Daily Telegraph''.

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Primary education

Primary education and elementary education is typically the first stage of formal education, coming after preschool and before secondary education (The first two grades of primary school, Grades 1 and 2, are also part of early childhood education).

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Public school (United Kingdom)

A public school in England and Wales is a long-established, student-selective, fee-charging independent secondary school that caters primarily for children aged between 11 or 13 and 18, and whose head teacher is a member of the Headmasters' and Headmistresses' Conference (HMC).

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Public Schools Association

Established in 1905 the Public Schools Association, or the PSA, is an association of seven independent boys schools in Perth, Western Australia.

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Quercus robur

Quercus robur, commonly known as common oak, pedunculate oak, European oak or English oak, is a species of flowering plant in the beech and oak family, Fagaceae.

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Randolph Stow

Julian Randolph Stow (28 November 1935 – 29 May 2010) was an Australian-born writer, novelist and poet.

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Robert Freeth

Robert Evelyn Freeth (b Dublin 7 April 1886 - d Perth, WA 16 September 1979) was an Anglican priest and educator.

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School

A school is an institution designed to provide learning spaces and learning environments for the teaching of students (or "pupils") under the direction of teachers.

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Scotch College, Perth

Scotch College (informally known as Scotch or SC), or scotches is an Australian independent school for boys, situated in Swanbourne, Western Australia.

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Secondary school

A secondary school is both an organization that provides secondary education and the building where this takes place.

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Simon Beasley

Simon Beasley (born 26 July 1956) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Swan Districts in the WAFL and Footscray in the Victorian Football League (VFL), now known as the Australian Football League (AFL).

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Single-sex education

Single-sex education, also known as single-gender education, is the practice of conducting education where male and female students attend separate classes or in separate buildings or schools.

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Swan River (Western Australia)

The Swan River is a river in the south west of Western Australia.

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Tertiary Entrance Exam

The Tertiary Entrance Examination (TEE) was the standard academic examination for secondary students completing their twelfth year of schooling in Western Australia during the early twenty-first century.

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The West Australian

The West Australian, widely known as The West (Saturday edition: The Weekend West) is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia, and is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, The Sunday Times.

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Tom Moody

Thomas Masson "Tom" Moody (born 2 October 1965) is a former Australian first-class cricketer and the former coach of the Sri Lankan cricket team.

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Vernon Hamersley

Vernon Hamersley (1871–1946) was an Australian politician.

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Vice-Chief of the Air Staff (United Kingdom)

The British Vice-Chief of the Air Staff (VCAS) was the post occupied by the senior Royal Air Force officer who served as a senior assistant to the Chief of the Air Staff.

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Wallace Kyle

Air Chief Marshal Sir Wallace Hart Kyle, (22 January 1910 – 31 January 1988) was an Australian who served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) as a senior commander and later as the Governor of Western Australia.

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West Coast Eagles

The West Coast Eagles, also known as West Coast, is a professional Australian rules football club based in Perth, Western Australia.

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Western Australia

Western Australia (abbreviated as WA) is a state occupying the entire western third of Australia.

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World War II

World War II (often abbreviated to WWII or WW2), also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although conflicts reflecting the ideological clash between what would become the Allied and Axis blocs began earlier.

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Year Seven

Year 7 is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand.

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Year Six

Year 6 is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Australia and New Zealand.

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Year Twelve

Year 12 is an educational year group in schools in many countries including England, Wales, Northern Ireland, Australia and New Zealand.

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1956 Summer Olympics

The 1956 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XVI Olympiad, were an international multi-sport event which was held in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, in November–December 1956, apart from the equestrian events, which were held five months earlier in Stockholm, Sweden.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guildford_Grammar_School

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