Word: oldham
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...could not live on his subaltern's pay, ?250 a year. He quit the army in 1899 after taking part in the last old-style cavalry charge, the one in which Kitchener at Omdurman fastened Britain's grip on the Sudan. He ran for Parliament from Oldham, and was beaten...