Alternate name(s):
Moffat; Muffit; Muffet; Moffatt; Art
Date of birth:
Friday, 15 September 1905
Ethnicity/Nationality:
English
Profession:
miner; logger; construction worker
Hometown(s):
Edmonton, Alberta; Vancouver, British Columbia; Hamsterly, England
Date of immigration to Canada:
Saturday, 23 June 1928
Political affiliation:
Young Communist League, 1931; Applied for Communist Party of Spain
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-04-20 arrived
Unit:
Abraham Lincoln Battalion; John Brown Artillery
Final status:
WIA 6 July 1937 during an attack on Villanueva de la Cañada: hit in the shoulder; Hospitalized; Survived; Returned to Canada on 11 February 1939 on the Duchess of Bedford; Died in 1969
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 560, ll. 77-84; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 2, Delo 51, ll. 134 on transfer to the Lincolns; Liversedge; Petrou; Ancestry; BC Archives
