Alternate name(s):
Elamaki
Date of birth:
Tuesday, 24 June 1902
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Finnish
Profession:
lumber worker; miner; carpenter
Hometown(s):
Evijarvella, Finland; Copper Cliff, Ontario; Port Arthur, Ontario
Unit:
Mackenzie-Papineau Brigade, Machine Gun Company: Ilkka Machine Gun Company
Final status:
KIA at Fuentes de Ebro, 13 or 15 October 1937; Note reports that he said he came to Spain to fight against communism
Other:
Had a brother serving with the Nationalist forces on the Cordoba Front
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 3, Delo 509, ll. 100; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 547, ll. 74 (Fiche); Americans and Canadians Killed in Spain Complete list to Nov. 15, 1937; Momryk; Petrou; Our Boys in Spain; Hoff