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| rdfs:comment | - John Edward "Eddie" Binks (3 May 1887 - 18 July 1963) was a trade unionist and Labour Party politician. Born in Islington, his father died when he was young, and he moved to live with his aunt's family in Walthamstow: by the age of 13 he was working as a weighbridge clerk for the Midland Railway. He subsequently established his own home in Crouch End. In October 1940 the house was destroyed in a German air raid, killing his wife. He subsequently moved to Harold Wood, Romford. He was selected to fill a wartime vacancy as an alderman in the London County Council in July 1941, sitting until 1946.
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| abstract | - John Edward "Eddie" Binks (3 May 1887 - 18 July 1963) was a trade unionist and Labour Party politician. Born in Islington, his father died when he was young, and he moved to live with his aunt's family in Walthamstow: by the age of 13 he was working as a weighbridge clerk for the Midland Railway. He subsequently established his own home in Crouch End. In October 1940 the house was destroyed in a German air raid, killing his wife. He subsequently moved to Harold Wood, Romford. In 1912 he joined the National Union of Railwaymen, and rose to become a member of the union's National Executive. At the 1944 annual general meeting was elected President of the Union, holding office from 1945 to 1948. He was selected to fill a wartime vacancy as an alderman in the London County Council in July 1941, sitting until 1946. Following the nationalisation of the railways by the post war Labour government he was appointed a member of the Railway Executive of the British Transport Commission. In 1955 he was made a member of the Southern Area Board of what became British Railways.
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