Wilfred Fienburgh

Wilfred Fienburgh MBE (4 November 1919, Ilford, Essex – 3 February 1958, Mill Hill, London) was a British Labour Party politician.

Though born in Ilford, he was brought up in the Belle Vue area of Bradford, Yorkshire, where he attended elementary and secondary schools. Between 1935 and 1939 he was a manual labourer, an office boy and unemployed.

In 1940, early in the Second World War, he enlisted in the British Army in the Rifle Brigade and was commissioned as an officer the same year. He took part in the Normandy landings in 1944 and was twice wounded. He was made Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in 1945 and was demobilized as Major, serving on the General Staff, in 1946. He continued to serve with the Territorial Army, and was a Major with the Intelligence Corps before he died.

At the 1945 general election he stood unsuccessfully in the Pembrokeshire constituency in Wales, losing by only 168 votes to the Liberal Party candidate Gwilym Lloyd George.

After demobilization he became full-time Assistant Secretary of the Civil Service Clerical Association, a trade union. In 1947 he joined the Labour Party Research Department, and was for four years the secretary of the party's policy committee, which involved him in drafting various articles of party policy during this period.

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