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Too old to fight in the First World War, Coumbe was commissioned as an officer in the 9th County of London Volunteer Regiment, a force equivalent to the Home Guard of the Second World War.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=29994|startpage=2839|supp=yes|date=20 March 1917}}</ref> Although he only reached the rank of temporary captain, he used the title "major (retired)" for the rest of his life. |
Too old to fight in the First World War, Coumbe was commissioned as an officer in the 9th County of London Volunteer Regiment, a force equivalent to the Home Guard of the Second World War.<ref>{{LondonGazette|issue=29994|startpage=2839|supp=yes|date=20 March 1917}}</ref> Although he only reached the rank of temporary captain, he used the title "major (retired)" for the rest of his life. |
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− | Elections were postponed for the duration of the war, and resumed in 1919. Coumbe was now living in [ |
+ | Elections were postponed for the duration of the war, and resumed in 1919. Coumbe was now living in [[Lordship Lane]], and was elected as a Municipal Reform councillor for [[Stoke Newington (UK Parliament constituency)|Stoke Newington]]. He held the seat at the next five triennial elections before being defeated by the [[Labour Party]] in 1937. |
Coumbe was a controversial figure. In his book "London Jewry and London Politics, 1889-1986", the author Geoffrey Alderman reports that: "On 15 April 1919, a week after the Morning Post had informed its readers that the Russian Jews were purveyors of Bolshevism, Major E. H. Coumbe, elected the previous month for Stoke Newington but formerly (1907-10) a councillor for Mile End, took the first step towards committing the Council to a policy of not employing aliens. Coumbe's intention was quite explicitly to bar all aliens from employment by the Council, whether or not they were naturalized." |
Coumbe was a controversial figure. In his book "London Jewry and London Politics, 1889-1986", the author Geoffrey Alderman reports that: "On 15 April 1919, a week after the Morning Post had informed its readers that the Russian Jews were purveyors of Bolshevism, Major E. H. Coumbe, elected the previous month for Stoke Newington but formerly (1907-10) a councillor for Mile End, took the first step towards committing the Council to a policy of not employing aliens. Coumbe's intention was quite explicitly to bar all aliens from employment by the Council, whether or not they were naturalized." |