Alternate name(s):
Henry Maki
Oni August Arvitt
Date of birth:
Monday, 22 November 1909
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Finnish
Profession:
automobile worker; organizer
Hometown(s):
Ohio; Bessamer, Pennsylvania; Finland
Political affiliation:
Communist Party, 1932: unit organizer, state committee and section committee
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-03-10 sailed
1937-03-28 arrived
Unit:
13 Brigade/Thaelman Brigade; Edgar Andre Battalion, Machine Gun Company, Section Leader; Rank Sargento, then Teniente, then Captain; Attended Officer Training School; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion; Company 3: Commander; Briefly served as acting commander of the Battalion; Commander: Company 2
Final status:
WIA during Ebro offensive on 21 September 1938; Survived; Briefly detained in a French concentration camp; He couldn't return to Canada due to paper problems; Returned to the United States in August 1939; Died in 1976
Sources:
Pay; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 558, ll. 1 (fiche); Canadian; Momryk; 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. Mattson; (obituary notice) The Volunteer, May 1976
