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Walsh was elected in 1906 . Previously he had been a Miner and an official of the Lancashire And Cheshire Miners' Federation . He lost a son in the Great War and stood in the 1918 Election as a Coalition Labour candidate opposed by the official Labour Party. He was Vice-President of National Union Of Mineworkers from 1922 to 1924 until he was appointed by Ramsay MacDonald as Secretary Of State For War . Walsh was popular with the Army and he knew Lord Derby all his life. EXTERNAL LINKS
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