Researching Alan Ritchie
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The name Alan means "Handsome, cheerful" and is of Gaelic origin.
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Alan MacDougall Ritchie
Alan MacDougall Ritchie (25 June 1893 – 30 April 1964) was an officer in the British Army during the First and the Second World Wars.
Ritchie was educated at Highgate School and attended the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. During the Great War he was a Captain in the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders, was mentioned in dispatches and was awarded the Order of the Redeemer.
He was appointed commanding officer of the 1st Royal Scots from 1918-1919 and of the 1st Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders in 1937. He won a DSO for service in Palestine in 1939 and became a brigade commander of the 26th (East Africa) Infantry Brigade and the 21st (East Africa) Infantry Brigade in the King's African Rifles during the East African Campaign. As commander of the 21st (East Africa) Brigade (11th African Division), Ritchie was detached to 1st South African Division from 27 February until 6 April and, thereafter, to the 12th African Division. In later life he was Assistant Commissioner in Chief of the St John Ambulance Brigade from 1950 to 1957 and was awarded an OBE in the 1958 Birthday Honours.
Source: Alan MacDougall Ritchie, Wikipedia, The Free EncyclopediaAlan Ritchie
Alan Ritchie (born 1951) is a former Scottish trade unionist.
Ritchie left school at the age of fifteen, and became a joiner in a shipyard in Glasgow. He joined the Amalgamated Society of Woodworkers, which subsequently became part of the Union of Construction, Allied Trades and Technicians (UCATT). In 1971, he was prominent in the Upper Clyde Shipbuilders work-in, which attempted to save the shipyards.
Ritchie became active in the Scottish Trades Union Congress, chairing its Youth Advisory Committee, and took a number of full-time positions in UCATT, becoming its Scottish regional secretary in 1991. In 2004, he was elected as the union's general secretary, easily beating Michael Dooley.
As general secretary, Ritchie led the group of trade unionists working on the 2012 Olympic Games construction project, and campaigned against nominal self-employment of building workers and for improved safety on construction sites. He was re-elected in 2009, again beating Dooley, but it later emerged that almost half the union's members were never sent ballot papers, and the result was declared void. Ritchie declared his intention to stand in the re-run election, but before it took place, he was suspended over unconnected allegations of expenses fraud. The following year, he resigned from the union.
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