Frederick Bellenger
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Captain The Right Honourable Frederick Bellenger |
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| Secretary of State for War | |
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In office 4 October 1946 – 7 October 1947 |
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| Monarch | George VI |
| Prime Minister | Clement Attlee |
| Preceded by | Jack Lawson |
| Succeeded by | Manny Shinwell |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
23 July 1894 Bethnal Green, London |
| Died |
11 May 1968 (aged 73) Kensington, London |
| Nationality | British |
| Political party | Labour |
Captain Frederick John Bellenger (23 July 1894 – 11 May 1968) was a British surveyor, journalist, soldier and politician.
Born in Bethnal Green, London, he was the son of Eugene Bernard Bellenger, a dairyman, and his wife Isabella Annette née Henner. He received only an elementary education before starting work aged 14. He worked in various jobs: in a tea warehouse in Houndsditch, as a messenger boy for the Post Office and as a clerk to an export company in the City of London.
With the outbreak of the First World War in August 1914, Bellenger volunteered to join the British Army. He became a gunner in the Royal Field Artillery, arriving at the Western Front in the following year. He was twice wounded, and rose through the ranks, being commissioned as a second lieutenant in 1917. Following the armistice in November 1918, he served in the forces occupying the Rhineland. He was demobilised in 1919.
In Cologne he had met Marion Theresa Stollwerck, daughter of Generalkonsul Karl Stollwerck, a wealthy German chocolate manufacturer, and they married in 1922. They had five sons and one daughter.
Following the war he worked as a surveyor and estate agent in west London. He became active in the local Conservative Association, and was elected to Fulham Borough Council as a Municipal Reform Party councillor representing Baron's Court ward in 1922 and 1925. He did not stand for election in 1928, and shortly afterwards joined the Labour Party.
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