David Ennals, Baron Ennals

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David Hedley Ennals, Baron Ennals PC (19 August 1922 - 17 June 1995) was a British Labour Party politician and campaigner for human rights.

He served as Secretary of State for Social Services from 1976 to 1979.

Born in 1922 to Arthur Ford Ennals and his wife Jessie Edith Taylor, Ennals was educated at Queen Mary's Grammar School, Walsall and the Loomis Institute in Windsor, Connecticut on a one-year student exchange scholarship.

In 1939 he was a reporter on the Walsall Observer and during World War II he served in the Royal Armoured Corps from 1941 to 1945.

Commissioned into Reconnaissance Corps in 1942 and posted to 3rd Reconnaissance Corps.

He served in North Africa, Italy and the Rhine Crossing[citation needed].

He failed to return from a night patrol during the Normandy campaign in June 1944[4] and spent several months as a prisoner of war.

He was invalided out with the rank of Lieutenant.