Alternate name(s):
Wolf
Woulff
Woulfe
Date of birth:
Sunday, 10 June 1900
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Irish
Profession:
logger; party organizer of sailors
Hometown(s):
Vancouver, British Columbia; Limerick, Ireland
Date of Immigration to Canada:
1924
Education:
Public school education in Ireland
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1932
Prior military experience:
Irish Republican Army; West Limerick Brigade, 2nd Battalion, G (Athea) Company, Signaler, fought in the War of Independence and Civil War, Captured October 1922, Released December 1923
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-03
Unit:
Officers' Training School; Most likely with Abraham Lincoln Battalion at Brunete
Final status:
WIA 3, 4 or 5 September 1937 at Belchite: jaw was blown away by a grenade, died in hospital later in the day; A Spanish death certificate was issued to his mother in April 1938.
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 575, ll. 122 (Autobiographical note dated June 10, 1937); List of Canadian Casualties in Spain MG30 E173 Vol.1 File 13; Liversedge; McLoughlin; Momryk; Petrou
