1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Ham North Constituency – Biography of Prior

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS

The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : West Ham North

CANDIDATE : Prior

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Cmdr. R. M. Prior, who was member for the Aston division of Birmingham from 1943 to 1945, is a company director. Born in 1893, and educated at Osborne and Dartmouth, he served in the Navy in destroyers and submarines in the 1914-18 war. He left the Navy in 1919, but rejo?ned in 1939 and commanded a fleet of drifters that saved 10,000 men at Dunkirk. He took part in commando raids in Norway and at Dieppe, where he was captured by the Germans. He escaped and joined up with the Maquis in France, but after many wanderings he managed to cross into Spain and finally reached Gibraltar. His services gained him the D.S.O. He was a beach master in Normandy on D-day and later opened the port of Antwerp for the allies.

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