Alternate name(s):
Arvi
Date of birth:
Tuesday, 30 August 1904
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Finnish
Profession:
lumberjack; miner
Hometown(s):
Vancouver, British Columbia; Ladysmith, British Columbia; Nurmo, Finland
Date of immigration to Canada:
Sunday, 4 April 1926
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1938-03-01 arrived
Unit:
Base of Instruction Tarazona then Base of Instruction Almansa; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, Company 1, later Machine Gun Company (5); Soldato; Served at the Ebro Offensive, including Gandesa, Corbera, Sierra Pandals, Sierra Caballs
Final status:
Survived; Returned to Canada 3 February 1939 on the Duchess of Richmond
Other:
One source notes that he did not speak very much English; Later worked in Nanaimo as a logger from 1953-1954
