Alternate name(s):
Sidney
Date of birth:
Tuesday, 5 September 1916
Marital status:
Single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
English
Profession:
Salesman for a woollens company
Hometown(s):
Toronto, Ontario; Chicago, Illinois; Leeds, England
Date of Immigration to Canada:
1921
Political affiliation:
Young Communist League 1937
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
11-27-1937
Unit:
Served with the Lincoln-Washington Battalion, Rank Sargento; Served at Teruel and the Retreats
Final status:
Reported MIA Retreats; WIA on April 2, 1938; Captured on April 3, 1938 near Gandesa; Released April 26, 1939 with the last of the Canadian POWs; Survived; WWII volunteered to serve in the US Army but was rejected; Died 8 July 1989, Chicago, Illinois
Other:
He wrote a testimony about his experience as a prisoner of war at San Pedro de Cardeña; His family moved to Chicago from the United Kingdom and he was placed in an orphanage
Sources:
Sail (under Harris, Sydney); SACB; Cadre; BN 58 Retreats; POW; ALBA 50 Sydney Harris Papers; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; Hoff; William Mullen, "Sentimental Journey" Clipping from VALB; Magda Krance, "Loving Sydney" Clipping from VALB; The Volunteer, Volume 12, No. 1 (Obituary); "Sydney Harris, 72, Photographer, Vet of Spanish war," Chicago Sun Times, July 10, 1989; "Sydney Harris," Chicago Sun Times, July 21, 1989.
