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Harold Aubery Humphries was born in 1918 and lived in Bilston all his life. He was an engineering inspector at Laystall Cromard Ltd., Dixon Street, Wolverhampton, a firm that had provided empolyment for two previous mayors, Councillor GA Jones and Alderman EW Bold. Married with four children, he served during World War II as a regular army corporal until he was taken prisoner by the German Army after the disaster at Dunkirk. He spent the next five years as a prisoner-of-war. He was elected to Bilston Borough Council and represented Bradley Ward from 1960. As a councillor he was chairman of the Health Committee, as well as being chairman of Bilston Labour Party. He was also vice-chairman of the managers of Bradley St Martin's Junior and Bradley Infants Schools, and was a member of the South-East Staffordshire Divisional Education Executive, Wolverhampton and District Marriage Guidance Council, the Area Health Committee and the Local Employment Committee. He became the borough's last mayor on the 27th May 1965, and served until Bilston was absorbed into Wolverhampton Borough Council on 1st April 1966. Mayor
and Councillors Last Photograph: M Mills & T Williams 1998:
Bilston, Tettenhall and Wednesfield. (Tempus Publishing Ltd, Stroud)
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