1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dunbartonshire West Constituency – Biography of Allan

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dunbartonshire West

CANDIDATE : Allan

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. R. A. Allan had a distinguished career in the Royal Navy and was the youngest officer to hold the rank of commander in the R.N.V.R. For his war service he was awarded the D.S.O., the O.B.E., French Legion of Honour, and American Legion of Merit, and was four times mentioned in dispatches. For a time he was attached to the British Embassy, Washington, and is interested in Anglo-American relations. He contested Dunbartonshire in 1945.

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