1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Lowestoft Constituency – Biography of Whitefoord

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Lowestoft

CANDIDATE : Whitefoord

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj.-Gen. P. G. Whitefoord is 51 and the son of a Lincolnshire rector. Educated in Germany and at St. John’s School, Leather-head, he served as a Regular Army officer with The Lincolnshire Regiment and later the Royal Artillery from 1912 to 1945. He won the M.C. in the 1914-18 war. Between the two wars he held staff appointments in Britain and India, in 1939 he was a staff officer at G.H.Q. of the B.E.F., and took part in the Dunkirk evacuation. After commanding the 54th Divisional Artillery, he went to the planning staff at Shaef as a major-general in 1943. As Chief of Staff, Allied Land Forces, in the liberation of Norway, he received a Norwegian decoration, and retired from the Army in 1945.

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