British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Tottenham Constituency – Biography of Cross

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Tottenham

CANDIDATE : Cross

PARTY : Comm.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. G. Cross, aged 34, was born in Islington, and is a dispatch manager in the book trade. During the war he served with the Cambridgeshire Regiment, and was taken prisoner at Singapore. For three and a half years he was on forced labour on the ” railway of death” in Siam. He has been branch secretary and branch chairman in Tottenham, of the Communist Party.


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