Nickname:
Wally
Date of Birth:
12 Apr 1917
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Canadian; Irish
Profession:
carpenter
Hometown(s):
Parry Sound, Ontario; Toronto, Ontario
Education:
high school, second form/grade 10, left to work
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada and Young Communist League, 1936; On tape, Peter Hunter says Dent was a member of the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation before Spain, then the Young Communist League
Involvement in On-to-Ottawa Trek:
Participated in the On-to-Ottawa Trek.
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-02-18 arrived
Unit:
Lincoln Battalion; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion; Recommended for officers school by Robert Merriman
Final status:
WIA – a head injury – 27 February 1937 at Brunete; Hospitalized for illness; Returned to New York 25 September 1937 on the Paris, but returned to Spain in October 1937; Awarded an International Brigades' medal 24 January 1939; Travelled on a speaking tour; Fought during World War II with the British Army; Mackenzie Papineau Veterans Association (Toronto); Died 9 May 1993 in Toronto, Ontario
Other:
A letter from Wally Dent appears in Advance: A Magazine for Youth.
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 546, ll. 38-39; NAC, M-P Collection, Cecil- Smith, V. 1, F. 16, Memoirs and Accounts of Service in Spain, Dent, Walter, 9 pages, no date; NAC, M-P Collection, Dent, V. 2, F. 5, Subject Files, Dent, Walter: General Correspondence, Veterans of the Mackenzie-Papineau BN, 1977-1984; National Office correspondence, Veterans of the Mackenzie-Papineau BN, 1977-1985, & Reminiscences of the SCW (transcript of an interview), 1980; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; Hoff
