Alternate name(s):
Jim; Mattson
Date of birth:
Wednesday, 2 February 1898
Marital status:
single
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Swedish
Profession:
logger; miner
Hometown(s):
Vancouver, British Columbia; Sala, Sweden
Date of immigration to Canada:
Sunday, 17 October 1926
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada, 1932
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1937-02-17 sailed
1937-03-17 arrived
Unit:
Abraham Lincoln Battalion; Auto Park
Final status:
Hospitalized for illness; Slated for repatriation; Captured March or April 1938; POW at San Pedro de Cardeñas; Died of cancer in prison on 18 August 1938
Other:
Buried in a casket made out of fish boxes
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 558, ll. 94; List of Canadian Casualties in Spain MG30 E173 Vol.1 File 13 (Mattson, Isaac; MIA Gandesa, March 25, 1938); Hoar; Momryk; Petrou; Ancestry; Our Boys in Spain. (545 6 536). Winnipeg Free Press article May 29, 1939 where he and Frank Papp were reported to have died in captivity
