\"Baron Ennals\" David Ennals Signed FDC Dated 1965 For Sale

Up for sale "Baron Ennals" David Ennals Hand Signed First Day Cover Dated 1965. 

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David

Hedley Ennals, Baron Ennals, PC (19

August 1922 – 17 June 1995) was a British Labour Party politician and campaigner for human

rights. He served as Secretary of

State for Social Services from 1976 to 1979. Born in 1922

in Walsall, Staffordshire to Arthur Ford Ennals and his wife

Jessie Edith Taylor, Ennals was educated at Queen Mary's Grammar

School, Walsall and the Loomis Institute in Windsor, Connecticut on

a one-year student exchange scholarship. In 1939 he was a reporter on

the Walsall Observer and

during World War II he

served in the Royal Armoured Corps from

1941 to 1945. He was commissioned into the Reconnaissance Corps in

1942 and posted to the 3rd Reconnaissance Corps. He

served in North Africa, Italy and the Rhine Crossing[ He

failed to return from a night patrol during the Normandy campaign in June 1944 and spent several months as a prisoner of war. He was invalided out with the rank of

Lieutenant.

Ennals stood unsuccessfully as the 1950 general

election and again in 1951. He

later joined the Labour Party and served as secretary to the international

department at the Labour Party's head office. In 1964 he

was elected as the Member of Parliament for Dover.

Following the 1966 Ennals as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of

State for the Army. He moved to become Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Home Department in

1967 under James Callaghan before

being appointed as a Minister of State for Social Services in 1968. He lost his

government post and his seat following Labour's defeat in the 1970 general

election. However, in Wilson's

Resignation Honours, he was sworn of the Privy

Council. Ennals returned to parliament the February

1974 general election and was appointed Minister of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs. In

1976 he became Secretary of

State for Social Services, which he held until Labour lost power in 1979.

During his tenure he appointed Sir Douglas Black to

produce the Black Report (published

in 1980) into health inequality. After losing his seat in the general

election of 1983, he was created a life peer, as Baron Ennals, of Norwich in the

County of Norfolk.