1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Stirling and Falkirk Burghs Constituency – Biography of Forbes

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Stirling and Falkirk Burghs

CANDIDATE : Forbes

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. W. Forbes, unsuccessful in the 1948 by-election, was born in 1902, educated at Eton and Sandhurst, and commissioned in the Coldstream Guards. He was captured by the Italians at Tobruk in 1942, but escaped and was free for a fortnight before falling into German hands. He remained a prisoner of war until 1945. He is a member of Stirling County Council.

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