Alternate name(s):
Suni Toivo; Toivo Julis; Sunni; Suoniemi; Sueniemi; NIemi; Lorio; Haapaniemi
Date of birth:
Monday, 13 April 1908
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Finnish; American
Profession:
later carpenter
Hometown(s):
Ironwood, Michigan, USA; Port Arthur, Ontario; Fort William, Ontario; Intitially said he was from Sakkijarvella, Finland on arrival in Canada
Date of Immigration to Canada:
1930
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-05-05
Unit:
XV Brigade, Washington Battalion, later Abraham Lincoln Battalion, Toivo Antikainen Machine Gun Company; Attended Officer Training School, November 1937; Rank Sargento
Final status:
Survived; Cited for outstanding work; Arrived in a repatriation centre in Catalonia 19 August 1938; Possibly returned to Canada 22 October 1938, or November 20 1938 with a Finnish passport under the name Toivo Jaapappa Haapaniemi; Involved with MacPap Veterans Association, 1983; Emigrated to US on December 3, 1941 as Toivo Jacob Suni, using birth certificate from Michigan as proof of citizenship and getting a card of identity in 1945; d. January 16, 1991 in Palm Beach, FL, USA.
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 570, ll. 100; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6 Delo 572, ll. 54; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; Hoff; Our Boys in Spain
