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| Jul 31, 2017 at 22:29 | comment | added | owjburnham | @RoyalCanadianBandit And if I remember rightly, Clement Attlee was generally known as 'Major Attlee' between the wars. | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 11:37 | comment | added | James K | That's true, but Churchill had attended Sandhurst, and had a military career outside of the national emergencies. Wellington was Field Marshall. I doubt Heath (PPE at Balliol and Law at Grays Inn) would have joined the army had war not been declared. Heath did his duty, then got out the army as soon as the war ended. As you note, it's relatively rare for the current membership to be ex-military. | |
| Jul 24, 2017 at 9:11 | comment | added | Royal Canadian Bandit | Depending what you mean by "military career", several PMs served in the armed forces in 1914-18 or 1939-45: eg. James Callaghan, Edward Heath, Harold Macmillan. A handful of current members of Parliament are ex-military, eg. Dan Jarvis, Iain Duncan Smith. | |
| Jul 20, 2017 at 14:44 | history | edited | James K | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2017 at 18:33 | history | edited | Alexei | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jul 19, 2017 at 17:41 | history | answered | James K | CC BY-SA 3.0 |