1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Bournemouth West Constituency – Biography of Boddy

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Bournemouth West

CANDIDATE : Boddy

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. A. Boddy, a master at Poole Grammar School, was born in 1916. At Cambridge he was a member of the University Socialist Club. As an officer of the Royal Corps of Signals during the war he served in Assam, Bengal, and the N.W. Frontier, becoming a lieutenant-colonel and staff officer at 14th Army G.H.Q. He also undertook a special mission to China.

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