1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Poplar Constituency – Biography of Lonsdale

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Poplar

CANDIDATE : Lonsdale

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Major R. T. H. Lonsdale is an Irishman, born in 1913 and educated at Eastbourne College and Sandhurst. In 1938-39 he was engaged on Waziristan operations in India and gained the M.C. for rescuing four wounded comrades. In the last war he was in the Parachute Brigade. He won the D.S.O. in Sicily, and he won a bar to the medal at Arnhem, where he led the ” Lonsdale Force,” and was twice wounded. He was heavyweight champion of The Royal Leicester Regiment.

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