British Politics Facts and Figures

1950 GENERAL ELECTION : West Lothian Constituency – Biography of Younger

CANDIDATE BIOGRAPHIES FROM 1950 TIMES GUIDE TO THE HOUSE OF COMMONS


The General Election was held on 23 February 1950.

CONSTITUENCY NAME : West Lothian

CANDIDATE : Younger

PARTY : C

ELECTORAL STATUS: Not Elected

BIOGRAPHY :

Mr. W. McE. Younger was born in 1905, and is a managing director. He was in the Territorial Army and served throughout the last war. He was in the siege of Tobruk, and won the D.S.O., and with the Eighth Army during the advance from El Alamein to Tunis ; he also commanded the 14th L.A.A. Regiment in the Salerno landings. In 1948 he was elected president of the West Lothian Junior Unionist Association.


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