Alternate name(s):
Dowell
Date of birth:
Saturday, 14 January 1911
Ethnicity/Nationality:
Scottish
Profession:
hotel worker; restaurant worker
Hometown(s):
Toronto, Ontario; Hamilton, Ontario; Glasgow, Scotland
Political affiliation:
Communist Party of Canada; Expelled from the Communist Party in Spain
Approximate date arrived in Spain:
1938-01-12 sailed
1938-01-23 arrived
Unit:
Special Machine Gun Battalion; Mackenzie Papineau Battalion, Company ; Spent two months in a labor Battalion after 'telling company delegate off'
Final status:
MIA/POW 24 September 1938; Survived; Returned to England on 19 December 1938
Disciplinary record in Spain:
Expelled from the Communist Party of Canada at Ripoll; Also in disciplinary battalion
Sources:
Figueres List; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 169 ll 102-106; RGASPI Fond 545, Opis 6, Delo 559, ll. 33-37; Momryk; Petrou
