Douglas Percival Pielou was a British soldier who was disabled from injuries received in the First World War and went on to become a Conservative

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 Member of Parliament

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 (MP).

Pielou was born in Glasgow

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 in 1887, the son an excise

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 officer. During the war, he was Regimental Sergeant-Major (RSM) of the Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders

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, and was severely wounded at the Battle of Loos

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 in 1915.

He was elected at the 1922 general election

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 as MP

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 for the Stourbridge division of Worcestershire

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, defeating the sitting Liberal

Liberal Party (UK)

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 MP John William Wilson

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. Pielou was re-elected in 1923

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 and 1924

United Kingdom general election, 1924

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, and died in office in 1927, aged 39.

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