Alternate name(s):
Vanderbrugge
VanderBerghe
Van
Andrew
Date of Birth:
circa 1904
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Dutch
Profession:
engineer or architect
Hometown(s):
St. Catharines, Ontario
Date of Immigration to Canada:
1919
Education:
Lenin School 1936-37
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-02-05 via Moscow
Unit:
Abraham Lincoln Battalion
Final status:
KIA 23 or 27 February 1937 at Jarama
Other:
Van der Brugge's father is quoted in Help Spain Make the World Safe for Democracy: "Five hundred of our sons are today fighting in the front-line trenches, proud members of the Mackenzie- Papineau Battalion of the International Brigade. Some have made the supreme sacrifice, so that "democracy shall not perish, from the earth'"
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 574, ll. 17; List of Canadian Casualties in Spain MG30 E173 Vol.1 File 13; Hoar; Momryk; Petrou
