Alternate name(s):
Becki
Becke
Dezor
Dezso
Dezo
Date of birth:
Monday, 17 March 1913
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Hungarian
Profession:
driver; farmer; coal miner
Hometown(s):
Lethbridge, Alberta; Jablones, Czechoslovakia
Date of immigration to Canada:
Saturday, 6 July 1929
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1936, Committee for Industrial Organization; Communist Party of Czechoslovakia
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-09-06 arrived
Unit:
Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, Machine Gun Company; Sergeant; Served at Teruel, Quinto, Aragon, and Ebro Offensive
Final status:
Reported incorrectly MIA or POW March 1938 but was in hospital in Oruhella for 17 days; Survived; Returned to Canada 3 February 1939; Involved with the MacPap Veterans Association (West); Served in World war II (1942); Returned to Hungary; Served as Hungarian Ambassador to Finland in the 1970s
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 542 ll. 71-75; Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 339 ll. 22-26; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry
