Alternate name(s):
Tugvinen
Tuuminen
Toumi
Ekki
Hekki
Heik
Date of birth:
Sunday, 27 January 1901
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Finnish
Profession:
lumber worker
Hometown(s):
Port Arthur, Ontario; Polvijarvi, Finland
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-04-24 sailed
1937-05-05 arrived
Unit:
Lincoln-Washington Battalion; English Battalion; Special Machine Gun Battalion; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion; Machine Gun Company; Served at Quinto, Belchite, Fuentes de Ebro, Teruel, Aragon, Catalonia, and Ebro Offensive
Final status:
WIA at Fuentes de Ebro April 1937, in the hand; WIA at Mora de Ebro in the arm; WIA at Gandes in the cheek; MIA April 1938; Accused of desertion; Survived; Returned to Canada 3 February 1939 on the Duchess of Richmond
Disciplinary record in Spain:
Accused of deserting; Listed as a deserter; Punished for drinking June 1938, jailed for 10 days
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 1033, ll. 14-18; Opis 6, Delo 572, ll. 73 (ver ar gen can); Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; Our Boys in Spain
