Alternate name(s):
Trayder
Trainor
Traymor
Nickname:
Paddy
Date of birth:
Saturday, 5 June 1897
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Irish
Profession:
time keeper; labourer
Hometown(s):
Toronto, Ontario; Ballybay, Derry, Ireland
Date of immigration to Canada:
Sunday, 9 August 1925
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1936
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-04-24 arrived
Unit:
Trained with the 2 Battalion of Instruction at Tarazona; Abraham Lincoln Battalion; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion; Section leader of Canadian section at Brunete on the second day of battle
Final status:
WIA "by a bullet which passed through the front of his mouth" at Brunete; Hospitalized; Survived; Returned to Canada 29 October 1938
Sources:
The Book of the XV Brigade; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 572, ll. 64-69; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 51, ll. 134 (Transfer to Lincolns); Hoar; McLoughlin; Momryk; Petrou
