Alternate name(s):
John Beronich
Baranic
Beranic
Beronic
Date of Birth:
1908
Marital status:
married
Children:
2
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Croatian
Profession:
miner
Hometown(s):
Vancouver, British Columbia; Lovinac-Gracac, Croatia
Date of Immigration to Canada:
1928
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-05-19 sailed
1937-06-08 arrived
Unit:
Abraham Lincoln Battalion; Petko Miletic: Anti-tank battery
Final status:
KIA July or 16 July 1937 at Villa de Castillio
Other:
The photo is labelled "John Beronich," and has been matched with this record because it is likely an anglicization of Ivan Berenic. His name appears twice on the Monument in Ottawa (as Beranic and Baranic)
Sources:
List of Canadian Casualties in Spain MG30 E173 Vol.1 File 13; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 47, ll. 20, Letter from Helge Meyer to Kerr, July 27, 1937 listing Canadians in the Palafox BN and the 6th Anti-Tank Battery; Kraljic; Liversedge; Petrou; "Pismo druga Matesica iz bolnice u Tarancenu," Slobodna misao, 24 August 1937; Spisak Spanskih boraca iz Yugoslavije, a list of Yugoslav volunteers in Spain, originally established in 1971 and now posted by the Association of Spanish volunteers (Beograd, Serbia)
