Alternate name(s):
Nicholas; Nikolai; Demianchuk; Demainscuk; Demianczuk
Date of birth:
Saturday, 3 February 1906
Marital status:
married
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Ukrainian
Profession:
lumber worker
Hometown(s):
Winnipeg, Manitoba; Chornchi, Ukraine
Date of Immigration to Canada:
1929
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
before 1937-11-01
Unit:
13 Dombrowski Brigade, 52 Palafax Battalion, Taras Shevchenko Company, Commissar; Jakob Lompik writes in memoir that he was the machine gun company commissar
Final status:
KIA Fall 1937 near Huesca
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; Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 546, ll. 37 (ver gen amer); Hoar (as Demianschuk); Momryk; Petrou; Hoff
