Francis Thirkettle

Alternate name(s): 
Frank
Date of Birth: 
circa 1909
Marital status: 
single
Ethnicity/Nationality: 
English
Profession: 
clerk; labourer
Hometown(s): 
Vancouver, British Columbia; London, England
Date of immigration to Canada: 
Sunday, 10 April 1927
Approximate date arrived in Spain: 
1937-11-19 left; 1937-12-02 arrived
Unit: 
Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, Company 2; Corporal
Final status: 
WIA 27 July 1938 at Gandesa: hit in both thighs and left arm; Hospitalized; Survived; Returned to Canada 23 February 1939 on the Duchess of York; Died in 1972
Sources: 
Figueres List; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6 Delo 572, ll. 12-14; NAC, M-P Collection, Cecil-Smith, V. 1, F. 16, Memoirs and Accounts of Service in Spain, Thirkettle, Frank, 20 pages, no date; Petrou; Ancestry
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