1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Newcastle-under-Lyme Constituency – Biography of Friend

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Newcastle-under-Lyme

CANDIDATE : Friend

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Maj. J. A. Friend is a Regular Army officer who was commissioned in 1936 after education at Harrow and Sandhurst, and retired in 1947. He served with the 7th Armoured Division in the Middle East and was twice mentioned in dispatches. He was a liaison officer through the Battles of Alamein and of the Western Desert, and was later posted as chief armoured car instructor at Sandhurst. In 1944 he took part in the liberation of Europe, and in 1945 was with the Allied Military Government of Hanover.

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