1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Dudley Constituency – Biography of Wigg

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Dudley

CANDIDATE : Wigg

PARTY : Lab.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Elected as MP

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. E. C. Wigg, who won Dudley for the Labour Party in 1945, as Parliamentary private secretary accompanied Mr. Shin well, Secretary of State for War, on his visits to British troops abroad. Born in 1900, he joined the Tank Corps when 19 and served for 23 years in Turkey, India, Iraq, the Sudan, and West Africa. Discharged in 1937, he rejoined in 1940, and worked for better welfare and education in the Army. He is one of the joint authors of ” Keeping Left.”

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