Alternate name(s):
Narisola; Merisalo; Salo; Murisola; Nurisola; Nurisoal; Nurisalo
Alexius; Aleksis; Eino; Einar; Einari; Emar; Einer; Einad; Matti
Date of birth:
Friday, 19 May 1905
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Finnish
Profession:
lumberjack; carpenter
Hometown(s):
Port Arthur, Ontario; Kalvia, Finland
Date of Immigration to Canada:
1929
Education:
4 years of school
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1932
Prior military experience:
Finnish Army: Artillery
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-05-10 left
1937-05-30 arrived on Ciudad de Barcelona
Unit:
Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, Company 4 (Machine Gun Company), Section 1: second gunner; Edgar Andre Unit; Lincoln-Washington Battalion; Toivo Antikainen Machine Gun Company
Final status:
WIA; Hospitalized; Survived; Returned to Canada on 16 September 1938 on the Duchess of Bedford; Died in 1943
Sources:
Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; RGASPI F. 545, Opis 6, Delo 1030, ll. 35 (fiche); Our Boys in Spain
