Monday, 1 January 2018
1781 Harold Cawley
Constituency : Heywood 1910-15
Harold took over from Edward Holden at Heywood.
Harold was the son of the MP for Prestwich , Frederick Cawley. He was educated at Rugby and Oxford. He became a barrister.
Harold's maiden speech was a long one in defence of the naval estimates. He had a rather reserved manner but was regarded as talented and much liked. He had a damaged arm but was noted by Masterman as a fearless rider.
In 1910 Harold became PPS to Runciman at Education and then to McKenna at the Home Office.
In 1914 Harold joined the army as a captain and became aide-de-camp to Major-General William Douglas. In 1915 he was involved in the Dardanelles Campaign and wrote a letter to his father criticising the organisation of the campaign. He described Douglas thus :
"He has a third-rate brain, no capacity to grasp the lie of the land , and no originality or ingenuity...He has been in the trenches three times since he landed, hurried visits on which he saw next to nothing... He is always thinking of himself, his food, his promotion, his health".
He volunteered for active duty after seeing his battalion suffer heavy losses and was killed by a sniper while defending a crater at Gallipoli in September 1915. He was 37.
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