1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Eastbourne Constituency – Biography of Bate

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Eastbourne

CANDIDATE : Bate

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Lt.-Col. C. L. H. D. Bate, a former Regular Army officer, aged 51, was born at Ladysmith and is now a director of a merchants’ import and export business. After two years’ service oversea in the 1914-18 war he was with the Danzig Plebiscite Force in 1920, the West African Frontier Force, 1920-25, the Army of the Rhine, 1927-28, and in India, 1928-32. Recalled on the outbreak of war, he served in North Africa and Italy.

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