Nickname:
Lee
Date of birth:
Tuesday, 14 November 1911
Date of Birth:
circa 1910
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Canadian
Profession:
clerk; longshoreman
Hometown(s):
Sydney, Nova Scotia; Toronto, Ontario; Winnipeg, Manitoba; United States
Education:
elementary school, 8 years; high school, 2 years
Political affiliation:
possibly Communist Party of Canada
Involvement in On-to-Ottawa Trek:
Participated in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-04-20 arrived
Unit:
Served with the Lincoln Battalion, Machine Gun Company, runner, later battalion runner, one of forty Canadians transferred into the Lincolns on June 5, 1937; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, Communications; Served at Brunete, Quinto, Belchite, Teruel, and the Retreats
Final status:
WIA Aragon, WIA again September 1938; Survived; Returned to Canada 26 September 1938; Served with the Canadian Army during World War II; Mackenzie Papineau Veterans Association (Toronto); Visited Spain with the veterans delegation in September 1979
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 543, ll. 153-155; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 51 ll 134; NAC, M-P Collection, Dent, V. 2, F. 16-17, Subject Files, Burke, Ainslie (Lee): Correspondence, research notes, and list of Mac-Pap veterans, 1977-85, & International Brigade travel document, correspondence, post card, and Empress of Britain brochure, 1937-38; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; Hoff
