Alternate name(s):
Henderson; Halttunen; Hannes
Date of birth:
Tuesday, 25 July 1905
Marital status:
married
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Finnish
Profession:
Journalist; automobile worker; full-time party organizer
Hometown(s):
Regina, Saskatchewan; Toronto, Ontario; Finland
Date of Immigration to Canada:
1909
Education:
`1.5 years at college in Ohio
Political affiliation:
Communist Party, 1927
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-05-29 sailed
1937-06-13 arrived
Unit:
Trained with the 2nd Battalion of Instruction at Tarazona; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion; Political commissar of Battery 60; 15 Brigade; Commissar of War in the Mackenzie Papineau Battalion; Clerk (kept records); Lincoln-Washington Battalion; Officer Training School
Final status:
WIA on 10 March 1938 during an artillery attack; Hospitalized; Survived; Returned to the United States on 15 December 1938 on the Paris; Died in 1949
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 566, ll. 34, Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 1021, ll. 28-39; Petrou; Ancestry L-W; Finnish, K. E. Heikkinen, ed., Meidän Poikamme Espanjassa (Our Boys in Spain), Finnish Workers Federation, USA, Inc., 1939, translated by Matti A. Mattso
