Jose Fuentes Carreteri | Canadian Cultural History About The Spanish Civil War

Alternate name(s):

Carreteri

Nickname:

Tony Martin

Date of birth:

Monday, 28 March 1904

Marital status:

single

Ethnicity/Nationality:

Spanish

Hometown(s):

Montreal, Quebec; Vancouver, British Columbia; Almeria, Spain

Date of Immigration to Canada:

1926

Political affiliation:

Communist Party of Canada, 1932

Affiliations to union and social groups:

Relief Project Workers' Union; Canadian Labor Defence League; Friends of the Soviet Union; National Unemployed Workers' Association; Worked for the Spanish Republican cause in Canada organizing for "Unidad"

Approximate date arrived in Spain:

1938-01-15

Unit:

Trained at Tarragona; Sent to the front 13 March 1938; Interpreter; Sent by Luigi "Gallo" Longo and Copic to the Ministry of Propaganda 16 February 1938

Final status:

Survived; Returned to England

Sources:

RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 543 – “Relacion de Comaradas" Del Campo De Tarazone Que Marcharon a la Quince Brigade El 25 de Marzo 1938, dated April 3, 1938; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 548, ll.109-112; Hoff