Alternate name(s):
Kelley
Nickname:
Joe
Date of birth:
Monday, 2 April 1900
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Irish
Profession:
miner; lumber worker
Hometown(s):
Vancouver, British Columbia; Salmon Arm, British Columbia; Belfast, Ireland
Date of Immigration to Canada:
1922
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1932
Prior military experience:
World War I; Irish Republican Army
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-02-17 - sailed via the President Roosevelt
1937-03-10 - arrived
Unit:
Trained at Madrigueras from 13 March 1937 to 2 April; British Battalion; Abraham Lincoln Battalion, Machine Gun Company 3; Military instructor; Front line service at Jarama, Brunete, Belchite, Caspe; Lieutenant from 3 November 1937; Retreats February 5 to April 13, 1938;
Final status:
WIA 13 July 1937 at Brunete; Hospitalized at Madrid from July 1938 to 17 August 1937; Training accident, still hospitalized in October 1938; Survived; Returned to Canada 3 February 1939 on the Duchess of Richmond; Died 2 January 1977 in Kamloops, British Columbia
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 555, ll. 40-47; Liversedge; McLoughlin; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; Findagrave; BC Archives; Hoff
