Johan Savikko

Alternate name(s): 
Savaka
Savikho
Johannes
August
John
Jussi
Nickname: 
Frank
Date of birth: 
Sunday, 7 December 1890
Ethnicity/Nationality: 
Finnish
Profession: 
logger
Hometown(s): 
Port Arthur, Ontario; Haapajarvi, Finland
Date of Immigration to Canada: 
1926 or 1927
Political affiliation: 
Not a member of the Communist Party; International Brigades files say he should not be accepted into the party
Affiliations to union and social groups: 
Industrial Sawmill and Lumber Workers Union
Unit: 
Washington Battalion; Lincoln Washington Battalion, Machine Gun Company
Final status: 

Hospitalized; Imprisoned at Castillo de Fels prison; Proposed for expulsion from Republic; Survived; Returned to Canada 3 February 1939 on the Duchess of Richmond

Disciplinary record in Spain: 
Did not desert, but was imprisoned at Castillo de Fels; Demoralized and drunk; Sentenced to incarceration for drunkenness for 30 days – extended to a year; Disciplinary Company, jailed at Albacete
Other: 
Spoke only Finnish
Sources: 
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 568, ll. 38 (see Finnish); RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 1032, ll. 7-13; Momryk; Petrou; Our Boys in Spain
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