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(3) Dudley Joel, elected MP for Dudley in 1931. He was re-elected in 1935,
but with the outbreak of World War II joined the Royal Naval Volunteer
Reserve and was killed in action on 28 May 1941 when the steam merchant
ship HMS Registan was bombed by German aircraft off Cape Cornwall.

(4) George Edward Cecil Wigg, Baron Wigg, PC (1900-1983). He was a
regular soldier for many years, reaching the rank of Colonel. He was
Dudley MP from 1945, served as Paymaster General, and became Baron
Wigg of the Borough of Dudley in 1967. The same year he was appointed
Chairman of the Horserace Betting Levy Board.

(5) (William) Donald Williams (1919-1990), chartered accountant, Conservative MP for Dudley
1968-70. Williams went to the Royal Grammar School in Worcester but
before he could start work the outbreak of the Second World War led him
to join the Worcester Regiment. He was taken prisoner at Dunkirk and
spent four and a half years in German prisoner-of-war camps, but escaped
in January 1945 and went through Russia to get back to Britain two months
later.

(6) John Gilbert, Baron Gilbert, PC (1927-2013). Elected Labour MP for Dudley in 1970 and
(after boundary changes) Dudley East in 1974, which he represented until
1997, when it became part of the new Dudley North constituency. In 1997
he was created a Life Peer as Baron Gilbert, of Dudley in the County of
West Midlands. From 1997-1999 he served as Minister of State for
Defence Procurement in Tony Blair's first government.

3. Mayor of Dudley for their period in office
Honorary members 1930-1983/84
(1) John Harry Molyneux (1929-1930)
(2) Joseph Fulwood (1931-1932)
(3) Henry Joseph Golding (1933)
(4) John Harry Molyneux (1933)
(5) William Charles Williams (1933-1934)
(6) Joseph Leonard Hillman (1935-1936) - club member (#13) 1922 until died 1974
(7) Alexander Elliot Young (1937-1938)
(8) Bertie Thomas Harwood (1939-1940)
(9) Harry Clifford Whitehouse (1941-1942) - previously club member (#174) 1934-38
(10) Thomas Edward Bennett (1943)
(11) Arthur Lionel Hillman (1944)
(12) Thomas Edward Bennett (1945)