British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : Devizes Constituency – Biography of Aston

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : Devizes

CANDIDATE : Aston

PARTY : L.

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. R. Aston, aged 43, worked for some time with the Great Western Railway, served as a gunner in the Royal Artillery, and was later commissioned and landed in Normandy soon after D Day. In 1946 he joined the Allied Control Commission in Germany and remained with them until October, 1949.


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