1941 Berwick-upon-Tweed by-election
The seat had become vacant when the constituency's Member of Parliament (MP), Sir Hugh Seely, Bt (2 October 1898 – 1 April 1970), was elevated to the peerage as the 1st Baron Sherwood in July 1941.Accordingly, the Liberal Party nominated a candidate, but no Labour or Conservative representative was put forward.[citation needed] George Charles Grey (2 December 1918 – 30 July 1944), the son of a major-general, had joined the British Army in 1938 before the outbreak of the Second World War the following year.A captain in the 4th Battalion Grenadier Guards, Grey was killed at Le Repas in Normandy, France, on the first day of Operation Bluecoat.He was buried on the battlefield by his men, on the site of which his family later erected a memorial.