Alternate name(s):
Stepanian, Badrig Der; Stevens
Date of birth:
Tuesday, 22 November 1910
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Armenian
Profession:
accountant
Hometown(s):
Toronto, Ontario; Detroit, USA; Harput, Turkey
Date of Immigration to Canada:
1923
Education:
3 years of commercial courses in Canada
Political affiliation:
Young Communist League, 1935; Communist Party of Spain
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-02-06 sailed
1937-02-14 arrived
Unit:
Lincoln Battalion, Machine Gun Company; John Murra; Servicio de Sanidad; Lincoln-Washington Battalion, Company 3; SIM Agent; Rank Teniente
Final status:
Survived; Returned to Canada on 3 February 1939 on the Duchess of Richmond; Served in the Canadian Army during World War II; Died in 1987
Other:
Author of a memoir: A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War: An Armenian-Canadian in the Lincoln Battalion. AU Press, 2000.
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 570, ll. 72-81 (also ver Armenians); Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry. See D. P. (Pat) Stephens, A Memoir of the Spanish Civil War, AU Press, 2000
