1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Carshalton Constituency – Biography of Head

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Carshalton

CANDIDATE : Head

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Brig. A. H. Head was born in 1906 and educated at Eton and Sandhurst. Entering the Army as a career, he first joined the 15/] 9th Hussars and later transferred to The Life Guards. He served throughout the last war, being Assistant Secretary to the Committee of Imperial Defence, then on the staff of the Chief of Combined Operations, and later representative with the Director of Plans for Amphibious Operations. He entered Parliament in 1945 and is chairman of the Conservative Party’s subcommittee on the Army.

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