Alternate name(s):
Engblom; Engftrom; Edward
Date of birth:
Saturday, 9 March 1907
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Finnish
Profession:
railway fireman
Hometown(s):
Lapee, Ontario
Date of immigration to Canada:
Thursday, 15 September 1910
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1931
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-05-01
Unit:
Service Sanitaire as a ambulance driver; Abraham Lincoln Battalion; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion
Final status:
Evacuated from Castillo de Fels prison; Survived; evacuated from prison and arrived in Halifax, Nova Scotia on 23 February 1939; Died 6 March 1944 from an air embolism from tuberculosis at St William Sanatarium, Thunder Bay, Ontario.
Disciplinary record in Spain:
Deserted; Imprisoned at Castillo de Fels; Jailed for "long periods"
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 547, ll. 78; Momryk; Petrou, Ancestry; Hoff
