Alternate name(s):
Manjgotic; Mangolie; Mangotic; Magnotic; Mangotie
Anthony; Tony
Date of birth:
Friday, 19 June 1914
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Croatian
Hometown(s):
Timmins, Ontario; Schumaker, Ontario; Grobnik, Croatia
Date of immigration to Canada:
Saturday, 31 July 1926
Education:
4 years of primary school
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-03-23
Unit:
Abraham Lincoln Battalion; Dimitrov Battalion
Final status:
Captured at Brunete; POW at San Pedro de Cardeñas; Exchanged on 5 April 1939; Survived; Returned to Canada on 6 May 1939 on the Duchess of Bedford
Other:
He wrote a testimony about his experience as a prisoner of war at San Pedro de Cardeña.
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 558, ll. 46 (ver ar gan ingles); List of Canadian Casualties in Spain MG30 E173 Vol.1 File 13 (Mangotic, MIA April 1938); NAC, M-P Collection, Cecil-Smith, V. 1, F. 16, Memoirs and Accounts of Service in Spain, Mangotie, Anthony, 8 pages, no date; Geiser; Hoar as Mangotic, p199; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry
