Profession:
school teacher
Hometown(s):
Bethnal Green, United Kingdom
Final status:
MIA March 1938 at Aragon; POW at San Pedro de Cardena in 1938; Survived the war; Worked as an interpreter in Germany after the Second World War, then taught languages in London; Died in the 1970s.
Other:
He was imprisoned in San Pedro de Cardena with Londoner Dougal Eggar. While in prison, they were brought out to meet a press party visiting the prison.Among this party was Kim Philby, the British Intelligence Officer and Soviet Double Agent, who was ostensibly visiting Spain as a correspondent for The Times. Philby apparently took both prisoners' home addresses and promised to write to their families, but never did so.
Sources:
RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 556, ll. 32-33; Susan Kingsley (relative)
